5. Experiencing the ‘Rashomon-Effect’: Functions of Multiperspectivity in Violent Ends (2015), This is Where It Ends (2016) and Elephant (2003)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Narrative, Fiction and Fact in the School Shooting Discourse
6. 2. We Need to Talk About Amok: Tracing the Narratives of School Shootings 19
7. 3. Blurred Boundaries: The Role of Fiction in the School Shooting Discourse 90
8. Part II: Discursive Functions of School Shooting Literature and Film
9. 4. Multimodal Representations of the School Shooting Narrative in Give a Boy a Gun (2000), Shooter (2004) and Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002) 149
10. 5. Experiencing the ‘Rashomon-Effect’: Functions of Multiperspectivity in Violent Ends (2015), This is Where It Ends (2016) and Elephant (2003) 210
11. 6. Unsettling Narratives: The Inexplicability of School Shootings in We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) and its Film Adaptation (2011) 265
12. 7. Conclusion 315
13. Bibliography 332
14. Index 351