The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse : : Approaching the Inexplicable / / Silke Braselmann.
Ever since the 1990s, school shootings have shocked the public in their brutality, their suddenness, and their inexplicability. While film and literature have played a role in the heated debates about so-called copycat crimes, the growing body of fictionalizations of school shootings has been neglec...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ,
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I: Narrative, Fiction and Fact in the School Shooting Discourse
- 2. We Need to Talk About Amok: Tracing the Narratives of School Shootings
- 3. Blurred Boundaries: The Role of Fiction in the School Shooting Discourse
- Part II: Discursive Functions of School Shooting Literature and Film
- 4. Multimodal Representations of the School Shooting Narrative in Give a Boy a Gun (2000), Shooter (2004) and Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002)
- 5. Experiencing the ‘Rashomon-Effect’: Functions of Multiperspectivity in Violent Ends (2015), This is Where It Ends (2016) and Elephant (2003)
- 6. Unsettling Narratives: The Inexplicability of School Shootings in We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) and its Film Adaptation (2011)
- 7. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index