TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Montana
TI  - Playing dead: mock trauma and folk drama in staged high school drunk-driving tragedies 
T2  - Ritual, festival, and celebration
SN  - 9780874218923
AV  - GR72.3 .M55 2012eb
U1  - 398.27/7 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Logan
PB  - Utah State University Press
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Performance
KW  - Folk drama
KW  - High school students
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Death
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Interprétation
KW  - Élèves du secondaire
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - Mort
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Folklore & Mythology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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