Reload [electronic resource] : rethinking violence in American life / Christopher B. Strain.
Strain, Christopher B., 1970-
2010
HN90.V5 S87 2010eb
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Title Reload [electronic resource] : rethinking violence in American life / Christopher B. Strain.
Author Strain, Christopher B., 1970-
ISBN 9780826517432 (electronic bk.)
9780826517418
9780826517425 (pbk.)
Imprint Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xix, 162 p.)
Call Number HN90.V5 S87 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.0973
Summary When incidents of extreme violence flare in America, all too often they are framed as isolated aberrations. Nothing could be further from the truth, as the author argues in this book. The unpleasant fact, as he reveals in this study, is that American violence is inextricably woven into the fabric of our national heritage and experience. He traces our modern day conception of violence from the struggle to survive on the American frontier, through evolving gender roles in recent centuries, to the hysteria surrounding video and role playing games and the more recent disturbing phenomenon of school shootings. He shapes nothing less than a profound meditation on American violence and a "primer" on understanding what can often appear to be a profoundly dangerous nation. In addition to serving as an overview of the state of violence in America, the book also suggests ways of combating the trends that lead to tragedy.
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Introduction: thinking violence
The violence of American masculinity
Televiolence
Gun crazy
Red, black, and blue
Conclusion: rethinking violence.

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