Guys and Guns Amok

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Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre

By: Douglas Kellner

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Paperback | 30 January 2008 | Edition Number 1

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From the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University to the tragedies at Columbine and Oklahoma City, certain common traits can be traced through all of these events.In Guys and Guns Amok, media and cultural critic Douglas Kellner provides a fascinating diagnostic reading of these acts of domestic terrorism. Skillfully connecting each case with the current environment for male socialization and the search for identity in an American culture obsessed with guns and militarism, Kellner's work is a sobering reflection on these tragedies and the pervasive power of media and popular culture as well as a wake-up call for the future.

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"Kellner has given us an unsettling but much-needed and fascinating journey through the dark side of American society, where violent episodes like those at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech have become less shocking than they once were. This superb, provocative, well-written account situates what might be viewed as isolated killing sprees within a broader understanding of the media spectacle, trends at work in popular culture, the male gun fetish, and intensified U.S. war making. This is critical social theory at its best." -Carl Boggs, author of Imperial Delusions and coauthor of The Hollywood War Machine

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Media Spectacle and the "Virginia Tech Massacre"	p. 1
The Time of the Spectacle	p. 3
Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" and Its Limitations	p. 7
Reading the Spectacle with Critical Social Theory and Cultural Studies	p. 9
Societal Violence and Guys and Guns Amok	p. 14
The Epidemic of School Shootings	p. 19
Media Culture, Militarism, and Violent Masculinity	p. 26
In This Book	p. 28
Deconstructing the Spectacle: Race, Guns, and the Culture Wars	p. 33
The Shootings and the Politics of Race	p. 33
A Convocation and Cho's Multimedia Dossier	p. 38
Guns and Political Scapegoating	p. 43
School and Workplace Security: The Debate Begins	p. 50
Mourning, Copycats, and Ideological Manipulation	p. 53
The Situation of Contemporary Youth	p. 61
From Boomers to Busters	p. 63
Post-Boomers and Contemporary Youth	p. 69
Youth Alienation, Violence, and the War against Youth	p. 74
The Struggle against the War on Youth	p. 76
Perils of Youth	p. 83
Constructing Male Identities and the Spectacle of Terror	p. 89
White Male Identity Politics	p. 90
Militia, Right-Wing Extremism, and Terrorist Bombings	p. 95
Home-Grown Terrorism: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing	p. 100
Harvest of Rage	p. 107
The Unabomber and the Politics of Terror	p. 113
Middle-Class White Male Columbine High School Shootings	p. 118
The Columbine Media Spectacle and Its Exploitation	p. 119
Shooting at Columbine with Michael Moore: Guns, U.S. History, and Violence in America	p. 126
Seung-Hui Cho in the Borderlands between the Korean and the American	p. 131
What Is to Be Done?	p. 139
Aftermath	p. 142
Gun Laws, School and Workplace Safety, and Mental Health Care: The Delicate Balance	p. 146
Beyond the Culture of Male Violence and Rage	p. 154
New Literacies, Democratization, and the Reconstruction of Education	p. 159
Politics, Prisons, and the Abolition Democracy Project	p. 164
Horrors of the Prison-Industrial-Military Complex	p. 165
The Time of Abolitions	p. 167
Notes	p. 172
References	p. 201
Index	p. 208
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Guys and Guns Amok

Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre

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