EAN: 9783110766059

Bilder-Quelle: discount24.de - Sport-Freizeit

Ever since the 1990s school shootings have shocked the public in their brutality their suddenness and their inexplicability. While film and literature have played a role in the heated debates about so-called copycat crimes the growing body of fictionalizations of school shootings has been neglected thus far. However in a discourse in which the boundaries between fiction and reality are increasingly blurred this book shows how fiction shapes and structures challenges and disrupts cultural processes of meaning-making. Hence for a better understanding of the school shooting phenomenon the relevance of fiction on all levels of discourse construction requires thorough analysis. This book therefore develops a new approach to the role of fiction for contemporary forms of excessive violence. By combining narrative theory with insights from sociology and other disciplines it provides the means for apprehending and describing the relevance of fiction for contemporary discourses. Furthermore it provides exemplary analyses of more specific functions of literary and filmic fictionalizations of school shootings between 2000 and 2016.

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