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Wake up and open your eyes / by Chapman, Clay McLeod,author.(CARDINAL)663422;

"When Noah's aging parents stop returning his calls, he travels to their Virginia home and finds it in shambles. They have been violently possessed via the media they watch-and much of the country is succumbing, too. With his nephew-also unaffected-Noah tries to return home to safety"--

Subjects: Horror fiction.; Aging parents; Brainwashing; Mass media; Demoniac possession;

Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 31

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The lust for blood : why we are fascinated by death, murder, horror, and violence / by Kottler, Jeffrey A.(CARDINAL)726268;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-290) and index.Paradoxes of violence -- From Roman to contemporary gladiators -- True crime -- Sports fans -- Zombies, vampires, and monsters -- Serial killer groupies : attraction to predators -- Moving violations and other eyewitness curiosities -- Occupations of violence -- The meaning of mayhem -- What's normal and what's abnormal? -- Exploring the forbidden -- What the future holds.Draws on interviews with perpetrators, victims, and "consumers" of violence, including several celebrities, to explore the public's morbid fascination with violence, murder, horror, and crime.

Subjects: Violence; Violence in mass media.; Popular culture.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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The art of the English murder / by Worsley, Lucy,author.(CARDINAL)343304;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.Part one. How to enjoy a murder. 1. A connoisseur in murder -- 2. The highway -- 3. The watchmen -- 4. The murder circuit -- 5. House of wax -- 6. True crime -- 7. Charles Dickens, crime writer -- 8. The ballads of Maria Marten -- 9. Stage fright -- 10. The Bermondsey Horror -- Part two. Enter the detective. 11. Middle-class murders and medical gentlemen -- 12. The good wife -- 13. Detective fever -- 14. A new sensation -- 15. "It is worse than a crime, Violet..." -- 16. Monsters and men -- 17. The adventure of the forensic scientist -- 18. Revelations of a lady detective -- Part three. The golden age. 19. The women between the wars -- 20. The duchess of death -- 21. A life less ordinary -- 22. The great game -- 23. Snobbery with violence -- 24. The dangerous edge of things -- Postscript: The decline of English murder.

Subjects: Case studies.; Crime in literature.; Crime in popular culture.; Detective and mystery stories; Murder in art.; Murder in literature.; Murder in mass media.; Murder; Murder; Murder; National characteristics, British.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3

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Wake up and open your eyes [sound recording] / by Chapman, Clay McLeod,author.(CARDINAL)663422; Hempel, Joe,narrator.; Ochlan, P. J.,narrator.(CARDINAL)815570; Hellegers, Neil,1977-narrator.; Moore-Lambert, Charlotte,narrator.; Penning, Marni,narrator.; Tusing, Megan,narrator.(CARDINAL)782739; Nankani, Soneela,narrator.(CARDINAL)603243; Tager, Kelli,narrator.; Levine, Noah,narrator.(CARDINAL)672504; Hite, Cary,narrator.(CARDINAL)884456;

Read by Joe Hempel, P. J. Ochlan, Neil Hellegers, Charlotte Moore-Lambert, Marni Penning, Megan Tusing, Soneela Nankani, Kelli Tager, Noah Levine, and Cary Hite.When Noah Fairchild visits his parents in Richmond, Virginia, he finds them in a trance-like state in front of the TV. He tries to wake them, but his mother brutally attacks him. Families everywhere are tearing each other apart as people succumb to a form of demonic possession coming from certain channels, apps, and websites. He can try to escape back home to Brooklyn, but will he make it before falling prey to violent hordes?

Subjects: Horror fiction.; Audiobooks.; Horror fiction.; Demoniac possession; Mass media; Family violence; FICTION / Horror.; FICTION / Occult & Supernatural.; FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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School shootings and violence / by Allen, John,1957-author.(CARDINAL)460247;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Should schools be equipped with metal detectors? -- Should teachers and staff members be armed? -- Should schools have mental health counseling programs? -- Does media coverage contribute to the school shootings problem?"The horror of school shootings has become all too familiar to Americans in recent years. Gun violence in schools is part of a disturbing trend toward mass shootings in American society overall. School officials, members of the government, parents, and students around the country continue to search for ways to prevent school shootings"--Grade 9 to 12.

Subjects: School shootings; School violence; School shootings; School violence;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Being seen : one deafblind woman's guide to end ableism / by Sjunneson, Elsa,1985-author.;

Includes bibliographical references.The Building Blocks of Blindness: Hi, I'm Elsa -- We Need to Talk about Helen: Breaking Gibson's Mythology -- Language Acquisition Through the Sound Barrier and Other Deafblind Mysteries -- My Body and Other Histories -- How I Learned to Stop Worrying andIdentify Ableism: A Lesson in Radiation Poisoning -- Your Vision of Blindness is Impaired: The Monolith of Blindness in Media -- How I Learned to Drive, Play With Swords, And Other Things You Shouldn't Do At Home -- Yes, Virginia, Even Blind Men Can Be Assholes: The Intersection of Disability and Gender -- The Call is Coming from Inside the House: Surviving Ableist Violence Through the Lens of Horror -- Cripping My Dance Card: Required Reading for People Who Want to Date Me (But my Relatives Should Closethe Book) -- Coming Out of the Closet: But Only If It's ADA Compliant -- There Are No Blind Moms on TV: Disability & Parenthood Stigma -- I Am Not a Teaching Tool: Medicalizing the Disabled Body -- Welcome to the Cyberpunk Future, It's In My Ears: Disability and Science Fiction -- We Have Always Thrived in the Castle: Defying Ableism to Become Yourself -- Cane in One Hand, Protest Sign in the Other: A View of Police Brutality and Disability -- Hindsight is 20/20, Except if You're Me and then it's [REDACTED]."A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else"--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Sjunneson, Elsa, 1985-; Deafblind people; Deafblind women; Discrimination against people with disabilities.; People with disabilities in mass media.; People with disabilities.;

Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7

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Rosario [videorecording]/ by Vargas, Felipe,film director.; Silk, Jon,film producer.; Chapa, Javier,film producer.; Braun, Phillip,film producer.; Trezza, Alan,screenwriter.; Toubia, Emeraude,actor.; Zuniga, Jose,actor.; Dastmalchian, David,actor.; Ben-Victor, Paul,actor.; Lein, Diana,actor.; Faucher, Emilia,actor.; Harbourview Media Group (Firm),publisher.; Mucho Mas Media,presenter,production company.; Silk Mass (Firm),production company.;

Rosario, a successful Wall Street stockbroker, is forced to spend the night with the body of her estranged grandmother after she abruptly dies. While waiting for the ambulance, twisted and menacing supernatural forces possessing her grandmother's corpse begin their assault on Rosario as she becomes the target of a deadly family curse that spans generations.MPAA rating: R.DVD, region 1; NTSC; wide screen (2.00:1); Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.

Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Stockbrokers; Grandmothers; Wake services; Family secrets; Blessing and cursing;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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The black mass [videorecording] / by Pinn, Devanny,film director,screenwriter,film producer,actor.; Slagle, Brandon,screenwriter.; Pereira, Eric,screenwriter.; Romano, Michelle,film producer,actor.; Sykes, Andrew,actor.; Hamilton, Eva,actor.; Nicklin, Sarah,actor.; Gilson, Chelsea,actor.; Kinmont, Kathleen,actor.; London, Jeremy,1972-actor.(CARDINAL)847840; Lanier, Susan,1947-actor.; Temple, Lew,actor.; Wilcox, Lisa,1964-actor.; Wenger, Jennifer,1983-actor.; Dietz, Eileen,1944-actor.; Perdomo, Fernando,1980-composer (expression); Cleopatra Entertainment (Firm),presenter,publisher.; Jaguar Motion Pictures,production company.; Nitro Maximus (Firm),production company.; Roman Media, Inc.,production company.;

Edited by Wayne Kent ; music composed by Fernando Perdomo ; director of photography, Noah Luke.Andrew Sykes, Eva Hamilton, Michelle Romano, Sarah Nicklin, Devanny Pinn, Chelsea Gilson, Kathleen Kinmont, Jeremy London, Susan Lanier, Lew Temple, Lisa Wilcox, Jennifer Wenger, Eileen Dietz.Inspired by real events, this film is set over a 24-hour period in Florida during the winter of 1978 when a serial killer was stalking college girls.Rating: UnratedDVD, wide screen, all regions; Dolby digital 5.1 or 2.0.

Subjects: Crime films.; Horror films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Serial murderers; College students; Women college students; Nineteen seventies;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Violence in popular culture : American and global perspectives / by Finley, Laura L.,editor.(CARDINAL)546325;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : Violence in American popular culture -- Chronology : Violence in American popular culture -- Violence in radio : Bubba the love sponge ; Coast to coast AM ; Anthony Cumia ; James Edwards ; Rush Limbaugh ; The Opie & Anthony show ; Serial ; Howard Stern ; This American life ; "War of the worlds" -- Violence in film : Alien franchise ; Arab media ; Blaxploitation films ; Bollywood ; Bonnie and Clyde ; Coen Brothers films ; Cop films ; Disney films ; Dystopian young adult literature and film ; Fight club ; Gang films ; Global censorship ; Harry Potter books and film series ; Alfred Hitchcock ; Holocaust films ; Depictions of Islam ; Italian films ; Japanese films ; Jaws ; Stanley Kubrick ; Spike Lee ; Mad Max films ; Mafia films ; Natural born killers ; Nollywood ; North Korean films ; Rambo films ; Rape films ; Russian popular culture ; Silent films ; Slasher films ; Star wars franchise ; Superhero films ; Quentin Tarantino ; The Twilight saga ; War films ; Western films ; Zombie films -- Violence in television : American horror story ; Anime ; Breaking bad ; British television ; Buffy the vampire slayer ; Charlie's angels ; China beach ; Dexter ; Dukes of hazzard ; Family guy ; Game of thrones ; Hill Street blues ; Law & order ; Lonesome dove ; M*A*S*H ; Mad men ; Mexican wrestling ; Miami vice ; Murder, she wrote ; Professional wrestling ; The Ren & Stimpy show ; Soccer/football hooligans ; The Sopranos ; South park ; Spanish-language television ; Sports on television ; Star trek ; 21 jump street ; The walking dead ; The X-files -- Music and violence : African gangsta rap ; Blues music ; Broadway musicals ; Classic rock ; Country music ; Dancehall music ; Folk music ; Gangsta rap ; German punk music ; Goth and industrial music ; Hair metal ; Heavy metal ; Hip-hop ; Indian and Pakistani pop music ; Jamaican reggae music ; Latin American MCs ; Murder ballads ; Music videos ; Narcocorridos ; The national anthem ; Protest music worldwide ; Protest songs ; Punk music ; South Korean K-pop -- Violence in literature : Ancient Greek literature and culture ; Brave new world ; The call of the wild ; Catch-22 ; The crucible ; Fahrenheit 451 ; William Faulkner ; Stephen King ; Lord of the flies ; Mexican crime novels ; Toni Morrison ; Native American literature ; Native son ; 1984 ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Scandinavian crime novels ; William Shakespeare ; John Steinbeck ; Their eyes were watching God ; Things fall apart ; To kill a mockingbird ; Uncle Tom's cabin ; Kurt Vonnegut ; Alice Walker -- Violence in video games : Call of duty ; Diablo ; Doom ; Fallout ; Final fantasy ; Global video games ; Grand theft auto ; Half-life ; The legend of Zelda ; Minecraft ; Portal ; Quake ; Super Mario Bros. ; Tomb raider ; World of warcraft.This book reviews current and historical examples of violence in film, television, radio, music, music videos, video games, and novels. It sheds light on the scholarship related to violence in popular culture, compares historical and current examples, and offers detailed assessments of violent content in various expressions of popular culture. An appendix of additional resources and primary sources gives readers further tools for deepening their understanding of this issue.

Subjects: Violence in mass media.; Violence in popular culture.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. by Graham, Allison.(CARDINAL)518487; Montieth, Sharon.; University of Mississippi.Center for the Study of Southern Culture.(CARDINAL)167359;

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.James Agee -- All the king's men -- Robert Altman -- Appalshop -- Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker -- Tallulah Bankhead -- Red Barber -- The Beatles and Jesus controversy -- The Beverly hillbillies -- Lloyd Binford -- The birth of a nation -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Craig Brewer -- Anita Bryant -- Cable News Network (CNN) -- Erskine Caldwell and film -- Truman Capote -- Asa Carter -- Hodding Carter -- James Carville -- Cherokee phoenix -- Chick flicks -- Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) -- The Civil War (Ken Burns's) -- Ethan and Joel Coen -- Stephen Colbert -- Pat Conroy, film adaptations -- Country Music Television (CMT) -- Cox Enterprises -- Michael Curtiz -- Bette Davis -- Ossie Davis -- The defiant ones -- Deliverance -- Designing women -- Dixie Chicks Controversy -- Driving Miss Daisy -- The Dukes of Hazzard -- Eyes on the prize -- Jerry Falwell -- William Faulkner and film -- Stepin Fetchit -- Horton Foote -- Tennessee Ernie Ford -- Morgan Freeman -- Ava Gardner -- "Brother Dave" Gardner -- Harry Golden -- Gone with the wind -- Billy Graham -- Grand Ole Opry -- Great speckled bird -- Andy Griffith -- John Grisham, film adaptations of -- Joel Chandler Harris -- Hee Haw -- William Bradford Huie -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- I am a fugitive from a chain gang -- Inherit the wind -- In the heat of the night -- The intruder -- Molly Ivins -- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings -- Jezebel -- James Earl Jones -- Elia Kazan -- Stetson Kennedy -- James J. Kilpatrick -- Martin Luther King, Jr., media representation of -- Spike Lee -- Vivian Leigh -- Living blues -- Mandingo -- Doug Marlette -- Carson McCullers and film -- Ross McElwee -- Ralph McGill -- Butterfly McQueen -- Mississippi burning -- Jerry Mitchell, Jr. -- Sputnik Monroe -- Willie Morris -- Bill Moyers -- Nashville -- The Nashville Network (TNN or Spike) -- New Orleans Times-Picayune -- Norman Film Studios -- Nothing but a man -- Victor Nuñez -- Flannery O'Connor in film and television -- Oxford American -- Dolly Parton -- Minnie Pearl -- Tyler Perry -- Pinky -- Elvis Presley -- Elvis Presley, dead on film -- Radio free Dixie -- The real McCoys -- Jean Renoir -- Burt Reynolds -- Martin Ritt -- Pat Robertson -- Roots -- Charlie Rose -- John Sayles -- Dinah Shore -- Show boat -- Song of the south -- Southern cultures -- Southern exposure -- Southern living -- Sissy Spacek -- A streetcar named Desire -- Jimmy Swaggart -- Telemundo -- Billy Bob Thornton -- A time to kill -- To kill a mockingbird -- Ted Turner -- King Vidor -- The Waltons -- Way down south -- WDIA -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- WHER -- Tennessee Williams and film -- Oproah Winfrey -- WLAC -- Joanne Woodward -- WSM -- P.B. Young.Southern media cultures -- Broadcast news, voices, and accents -- Comic strips -- Film, censorship of -- Film, civil rights in -- Film, Civil War in -- Film, comedy -- Film, documentary -- Film, ethnicity in -- Film, exploitation -- Film, good ole boy -- Film, horror -- Film, independent -- Film, lynching -- Film, musical -- Film, music (southern) in -- Film, plantation in -- Film, politics in -- Film, prison -- Film, race in (1890s-1930s) -- Film, religion in -- Film, silent -- Film exhibition -- Film industry -- Internet representations of the south -- Journalism (print) and civil rights (1954-1968) -- Journalism (print) and labor -- Journalists, new south -- Magazines -- Newspapers -- Newspapers, Spanish-language -- Photojournalism -- Radio, Spanish-language -- Radio industry, early -- Radio industry, modern -- Segregationists' use of media -- Television, civil rights and -- Television movies -- Television series (1940s-1980s) -- Television series (1980 to present).

Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Mass media; Popular culture;

Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 16

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