tragedy and terror at Virginia Tech Agger, Ben. Luke, Timothy W. text bibliography mdu Lanham, Md Rowman & Littlefield c2008 2008 monographic eng

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xi, 263 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. 1. April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech, To : multiple recipients : "a gunman is loose on campus..." / Timothy W. Luke -- 2. Media spectacle and the "massacre at Virginia Tech" / Douglas Kellner -- 3. Mediated ritual on academic ground / Neal King -- 4. Profiling school shooters and shooters' schools : the cultural contexts of aggrieved entitlement and restorative masculinity / Michael Kimmel -- 5. "Victims sought in next week's shooting" / William Ayers -- 6. "We are all Seung-Hui Cho!" : American social psychosis and the Virginia Tech killings / Stephen Pfohl -- 7. Satire, guns, and humans : lessons from the Nacirema / Steve Kroll-Smith, Gwen Hunnicutt -- 8. S/he's lost control? : damaging a body of knowledge / Tara Brabazon -- 9. When rhetoric fails : the heroic teacher and the basic communications course / Matthew Levy -- 10. There is an unknown on campus : from normative to performative violence in academia / Patricia Mooney Nickel -- 11. The April 16 archive : collecting and preserving memories of the Virginia Tech tragedy / Brent K. Jesiek, Jeremy Hunsinger -- 12. Colonization and massacres : Virginia Tech, Jamestown, Korea, and Iraq / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz -- 13. All the rage : digital bodies and deadly play in the age of the suicide bomber / Carolyn Guertin -- 14. Is Virginia Tech an exception? / Stanley Aronowitz -- 15. Baudrillard (1929-2007) & Mao : a history of normal violence / Charles Lemert -- 16. Cho, not Che? : positioning Blacksburg in the political / Ben Agger. [edited by] Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us-va Virginia Tech Shootings, Blacksburg, Va., 2007 School shootings Virginia Blacksburg Campus violence Virginia Blacksburg Cho, Seung-Hui 1984-2007 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Students HV6534.B53 T44 2008 364.152/309755785 9780742561298 (cloth : alk. paper) 0742561291 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780742561304 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0742561305 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2007050907 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip086/2007050907.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip086/2007050907.html DLC 071213 20230410120810.0 89661