Playing Dead: Mock Trauma and Folk Drama in Staged High School Drunk-Driving Tragedies by Montana Miller

Playing Dead: Mock Trauma and Folk Drama in Staged High School Drunk-Driving Tragedies

Ritual, Festival, and Celebration

Montana Miller

148 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art education history sociology

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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," Montana Miller observes the ritual through a folklorist's lens. Playing Dead examines why hundreds of American schools and co...

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