Guys and guns amok : domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombing to the Virginia Tech massacre / Douglas Kellner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.

Introduction: Media Spectacle and the "Virginia Tech Massacre" -- The Time of the Spectacle -- Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" and Its Limitations -- Reading the Spectacle with Critical Social Theory and Cultural Studies -- Societal Violence and Guys and Guns Amok -- The Epidemic of School Shootings -- Media Culture, Militarism, and Violent Masculinity -- In This Book -- Ch. 1. Deconstructing the Spectacle: Race, Guns, and the Culture Wars -- The Shootings and the Politics of Race -- A Convocation and Cho's Multimedia Dossier -- Guns and Political Scapegoating -- School and Workplace Security: The Debate Begins -- Mourning, Copycats, and Ideological Manipulation -- Ch. 2. The Situation of Contemporary Youth -- From Boomers to Busters -- Post-Boomers and Contemporary Youth -- Youth Alienation, Violence, and the War against Youth -- The Struggle against the War on Youth -- Perils of Youth -- Ch. 3. Constructing Male Identities and the Spectacle of Terror -- White Male Identity Politics -- Militia, Right-Wing Extremism, and Terrorist Bombings -- Home-Grown Terrorism: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing -- Harvest of Rage -- The Unabomber and the Politics of Terror -- Middle-Class White Male Columbine High School Shootings -- The Columbine Media Spectacle and Its Exploitation -- Shooting at Columbine with Michael Moore: Guns, U.S. History, and Violence in America -- Seung-Hui Cho in the Borderlands between the Korean and the American -- Ch. 4. What Is to Be Done? -- Aftermath -- Gun Laws, School and Workplace Safety, and Mental Health Care: The Delicate Balance -- Beyond the Culture of Male Violence and Rage -- New Literacies, Democratization, and the Reconstruction of Education -- Politics, Prisons, and the Abolition Democracy Project -- Horrors of the Prison-Industrial-Military Complex -- The Time of Abolitions.