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Miller Montana |
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Titolo |
Playing dead [[electronic resource] ] : mock trauma and folk drama in staged high school drunk-driving tragedies / / Montana Miller |
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Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4571-8471-0 |
1-283-90663-5 |
0-87421-892-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (161 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ritual, Festival, and Celebration ; ; v.2 |
Ritual, festival, and celebration ; ; v. 2 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Folklore - Performance |
Folk drama |
High school students - Psychology |
Death - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword by Jack Santino; 1. Every 15 Minutes Someone Dies; 2. Backdrop for the Scene; 3. Marked for Death: Ambiguity and Slippery Steps in Frames of Play; 4. Engrossed Out: Every 15 Minutes as Folk Drama; 5. The Dazzle and Darkness of Play; 6. Shattering Frames: The Crash through YouTube's Window; Conclusion: Rustles in the Gallery; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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As the Grim Reaper pulls a student out of class to be a "victim" of drunk driving in a program called "Every 15 Minutes," Montana Miller observes the ritual through a folklorist's lens. Playing Dead examines why hundreds of American schools and communities each year organize these mock tragedies without any national sponsorship or coordination. Often, the event is complete with a staged accident in the parking lot, a life-flight helicopter, and faux eulogies for the "dead" students read in school assemblies. Grounding her research in play theory, frame theory, and theory of folk drama, |
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