Playing dead: mock trauma and folk drama in staged high school drunk-driving tragedies
| dc.contributor.author | Miller, Montana, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Utah State University Press, publisher | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:47:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:47:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Every 15 minutes someone dies -- Backdrop for the scene -- Marked for death: ambiguity and slippery steps in frames of play -- Engrossed out: every 15 minutes as folk drama -- The dazzle and darkness of play -- Shattering frames: the crash through YouTube's window -- Rustles in the gallery. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/88112 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Ritual, Festival, and Celebration; v. 2 | |
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| dc.subject | Folklore -- Performance | |
| dc.subject | Folk drama | |
| dc.subject | High school students -- Psychology | |
| dc.subject | Death -- Social aspects | |
| dc.title | Playing dead: mock trauma and folk drama in staged high school drunk-driving tragedies | |
| dc.type | Text |
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