Guys And Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism And School Shootings From The Oklahoma City Bombing To The Virginia Tech Massacre / Editi

Winner-2008 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award

From the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University to the tragedies at Columbine and Oklahoma City, certain common traits can be traced. 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 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. It sends a wake-up call to avert the next school shooting on the horizon.

See Doug Kellner's interview on Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com

Biography

Douglas Kellner, Professor in the Graduate School of Education, UCLA, is the author of many books, including Grand Theft 2000 (Rowman & Littlefield 2001) about the last presidential election

About The Author:

Douglas Kellner, Professor in the Graduate School of Education, UCLA, is the author of many books, including Grand Theft 2000 (Rowman & Littlefield 2001) about the last presidential election.

Table Of Contents:

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

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