Playing dead : mock trauma and folk drama in staged high school drunk-driving tragedies / Montana Miller.

By:

Miller, Montana

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Ritual, festival, and celebration ; v. 2.Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (x, 148 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780874218923
0874218926

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Playing dead.DDC classification:

398.27/7 23

LOC classification:

GR72.3 .M55 2012eb

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Contents:

Foreword / Jack Santino -- 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 -- Conclusion : Rustles in the Gallery.

Summary: As the Grim Reaper pulls a student out of class to be a "victim" of drunk driving in a program called "Every 15 Minutes," the author observes the ritual through a folklorist's lens. This book 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, the author investigates key aspects of this emergent tradition, paying particular attention to its unplanned element - enabled by the performance’s spontaneous nature and the participants’ tendency to stray from the intended frame. The author examines such variations in terms of the program as a whole, analyzing its continued popularity and weighing its success as perceived by participants.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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," the author observes the ritual through a folklorist's lens. This book 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, the author investigates key aspects of this emergent tradition, paying particular attention to its unplanned element - enabled by the performance’s spontaneous nature and the participants’ tendency to stray from the intended frame. The author examines such variations in terms of the program as a whole, analyzing its continued popularity and weighing its success as perceived by participants.

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