Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Bulletproof / Walking Productions ; directed and produced by Todd Chandler ; produced by Danielle Varga ; a co-production of Spectrascopic LLC and ITVS with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

Publisher, Date:

[New York, NY] : Grasshopper Film, [2022]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

The documentary explores the complexities of violence in schools by looking at the strategies employed to prevent it. The film observes the longstanding rituals that take place in and around American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements, and math class. Unfolding alongside these scenes are a collection of newer traditions: lockdown drills, teacher firearms training, metal detector screenings, and school safety trade shows. It asks what these rituals reflect at us, looking beyond immediate causes and responses to mass shootings in a cinematic meditation on the array of forces that shape the culture of violence in the United States.

Subjects:

School violence -- United States.

School violence -- United States -- Prevention.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Chandler, Todd, film director, film producer, editor of moving image work.

Varga, Danielle, film producer.

Walking Productions (Firm), production company.

Spectrascopic LLC, production company.