There is a Gunman on Campus

Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech
Herausgeber: Agger, Ben; Luke, Timothy W.

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Produktbeschreibung

On April 16, 2007, a Virginia Tech student killed 32 of his classmates and professors and then turned the gun on himself. The media focused their power and our attention on the campus, the students and faculty of Virginia Tech, and the gunman and his victims. But we have yet to understand fully what happened in Blacksburg. There is a Gunman on Campus brings our thoughts back to the shocking campus shootings and the public reactions to the event, shining needed light on what occurred at the university, how American society reacted, and how it all fits into contemporary culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780742561304
• ISBN-10: 0742561305
• Artikelnr.: 23595566

Autorenporträt

Ben Agger (1952-2015) was professor of sociology and humanities at University of Texas, Arlington. Timothy W. Luke is professor of political science at Virginia Tech.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Chapter 1: April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech-To: Multiple
Recipients: "A Gunman Is Loose on Campus..."
Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Media Spectacle and the "Massacre at Virginia Tech"
Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Mediated Ritual on Academic Ground
Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Profiling School Shooters and Shooters' Schools: The
Cultural Contexts of Aggrieved Entitlement and Restorative Masculinity
Chapter 6 Chapter 5: "Victims Sought in Next Week's Shooting"
Chapter 7 Chapter 6: "We Are All Seung-Hui Cho!": American Social Psychosis
and the Virginia Tech Killings
Chapter 8 Chapter 7: Satire, Guns, and Humans: Lessons from the Nacirema
Chapter 9 Chapter 8: S/he's Lost Control?: Damaging a Body of Knowledge
Chapter 10 Chapter 9: When Rhetoric Fails: The Heroic Teacher and the Basic
Communications Course
Chapter 11 Chapter 10: There Is an Unknown on Campus: From Normative to
Performative Violence in Academia
Chapter 12 Chapter 11: The April 16 Archive: Collecting and Preserving
Memories of the Virginia Tech Tragedy
Chapter 13 Chapter 12: Colonization and Massacres: Virginia Tech,
Jamestown, Korea, and Iraq
Chapter 14 Chapter 13: All The Rage: Digital Bodies and Deadly Play in the
Age of the Suicide Bomber
Chapter 15 Chapter 14: Is Virginia Tech an Exception?
Chapter 16 Chapter 15: Baudrillard (1929-2007) & Mao: A History of Normal
Violence
Chapter 17 Chapter 16: Cho, Not Che?: Positioning Blacksburg in the
Political