| Contents |
April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech, To : multiple recipients : "a gunman is loose on campus ..." / Timothy W. Luke -- Media spectacle and the "massacre at Virginia Tech" / Douglas Kellner -- Mediated ritual on academic ground / Neal King -- Profiling school shooters and shooters' schools : the cultural contexts of aggrieved entitlement and restorative masculinity / Michael Kimmel -- "Victims sought in next week's shooting" / William Ayers -- "We are all Seung-Hui Cho!" : American social psychosis and the Virginia Tech killings / Stephen Pfohl -- Satire, guns, and humans : lessons from the Nacirema / Steve Kroll-Smith, Gwen Hunnicutt -- S/he's lost control? : damaging a body of knowledge / Tara Brabazon -- When rhetoric fails : the heroic teacher and the basic communications course / Matthew Levy -- There is an unknown on campus : from normative to performative violence in academia / Patricia Mooney Nickel -- The April 16 archive : collecting and preserving memories of the Virginia Tech tragedy / Brent K. Jesiek, Jeremy Hunsinger -- Colonization and massacres : Virginia Tech, Jamestown, Korea, and Iraq / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz -- All the rage : digital bodies and deadly play in the age of the suicide bomber / Carolyn Guertin -- Is Virginia Tech an exception? / Stanley Aronowitz -- Baudrillard (1929-2007) & Mao : a history of normal violence / Charles Lemert -- Cho, not Che? : positioning Blacksburg in the political / Ben Agger. |
| Abstract |
There is a Gunman on Campus brings our thoughts back to the shocking campus shootings and the public reactions to the event, shining light on what occurred at the university, how American society reacted, and how it all fits into contemporary culture. --from publisher description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007050907 |
| ISBN | 9780742561298 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0742561291 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780742561304 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0742561305 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
