Playing dead [[electronic resource] ] : mock trauma and folk drama in staged high school drunk-driving tragedies / / Montana Miller

• Autore: Miller Montana
• Pubblicazione: Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
• Disciplina: 398.27/7
• Soggetto topico: Folklore - Performance; Folk drama; High school students - Psychology; Death - Social aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Playing dead
• ISBN: 1-4571-8471-0; 1-283-90663-5; 0-87421-892-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786174703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ritual, Festival, and Celebration