Hot Topics: Gun Violence: Media Aspects

"Using historical and current examples from film, television, literature, advertisements, and music, this book reveals the ways that rape and abuse are typically presented--and misrepresented--and evaluates the impact of these depictions on consumers. Incidences of domestic abuse and sexual assault aren't only commonplace nationwide and the source of a shockingly large number of serious injuries and deaths; they're also problems that are often subject to myths and misleading depictions in popular culture and media. The author of this important book seeks to shed light on the situation by examining the specific issues related to domestic violence and sexual assault, from the scope and extent of the problem to victim and offender characteristics, and from common misconceptions to societal, cultural, and judicial responses and prevention efforts. Each chapter discusses movies, music, literature, and other forms of popular culture that address issues of domestic abuse and sexual assault, identifying both accurate depictions and problematic examples. The final section of the book addresses how our culture responds to and attempts to prevent domestic abuse and sexual assault, covering depictions of police response to these kinds of crimes in popular culture, how the justice system handles these cases, and individual and community efforts to curb domestic abuse and sexual assault. A compendium of films, documentaries, popular books, and song lyrics featuring domestic abuse and sexual assault enables readers to easily investigate the subject further."

Description: Volume 1. American History and Violent Popular Culture -- Volume 2. Representations of Violence in Popular Cultural Genres.
American history and violent popular culture. Vanishing trace of violence in native American literature and film / Politics and pain : representing the violence of slavery in American popular culture / Natural laws, unnatural violence, and the psychophysical experience of civil wars generations in America / World War II in American popular culture, 1945-present / American dreams and nightmares : remembering the civil rights movement / Exploring popular cultural narratives of gender violence / Vigilant citizens and horrific heroes : perpetuating the positive portrayal of vigilantes / Violent gang in American popular culture : from pirates and cowboys to bikers and gangstas / Fear and loathing in suburbia : school shootings / Fatal attraction : the serial killer in American popular culture / Presidential violence / September 11 and beyond : the influence of 9/11 on American film and television / War on terror in American popular culture /
Representations of violence in popular cultural genres. Traversing the boundaries of moral deviance : New England execution sermons, 1674-1825 / Reading between the lines : the penny press and the purpose of making violence news / Coy, the graphic, and the ugly : violence in dime novels / "She decided to kill her husband" : housewives in contemporary American fictions of crime / Hard boiled detectives and the Roman noir tradition / Violence, the production code, and film noir / From knights to knights-errant : the evolution of westerners through portrayals of violence / Modus operandi : continuity and change in television crime drama at the forensic turn / Documenting murder before In cold blood : the 1950s origins of true crime / Capote's children : patterns of violence in contemporary American true crime narratives / "I'm not prepared to die" : murdered girl tunes in Appalachia / AmeriKKKa's human sacrifice : blackness, gangsta rap, and authentic villainy / "Violent lives" : the representation of violence in American comics / "Command and conquer" : video games and violence /

Title: Mass shootings : media, myths, and realities
Author: Jaclyn Schildkraut author.
H. Jaymi Elsass
Subjects: Mass murder; Firearms; Firearms and crime; Violent crimes; Murder in mass media; Violence in mass media; Firearms; Firearms and crime; Mass murder; Murder in mass media; Violence in mass media; Violent crimes
Description: Claims making and agenda setting : how myths become realities -- What is a "mass shooting"? -- A history of public mass shootings -- Mass shootings by the numbers -- The "usual suspects" as causal factors -- Mass shootings around the globe -- Preventing mass shootings -- Mass shootings in a mediated society -- Mass shootings today and beyond.

Includes a chapter on "How Journalists cover mass shootings : research to consider"

"Collects more than sixty narratives from school shooting survivors, family members, and community leaders covering fifty years of shootings in America, from the 1966 UT-Austin Tower shooting through May 2018's Santa Fe shooting. Through this collection, editors Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman offer a vital contribution to the surging national dialogue on gun reform by elevating the voices of those most directly affected by school shootings: the survivors."

"Glimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders. "This is a clarion call to action for teens, by teens, and is moving and powerful."--Booklist, Starred Review Glimmer of Hope tells the story of how a group of teenagers raced to channel their rage and sorrow [over Gun Violence] into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. "

Description: Valentine's Day -- Candy Cane Lane -- Parkland -- Aftermath : Lauren -- #NeverAgain -- The Parkland Manifesto -- #NeverForget.
"From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement. On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister, Lauren, went to school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, like any normal Wednesday. That day, of course, the world changed. By the next morning, with seventeen classmates and faculty dead, they had joined the leadership of a movement to save their own lives, and the lives of all other young people in America. It's a leadership position they did not seek, and did not want--but events gave them no choice. The morning after the massacre, David Hogg told CNN: "We're children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together. Get over your politics and get something done." This book is a manifesto for the movement begun that day, one that has already changed America--with voices of a new generation that are speaking truth to power, and are determined to succeed where their elders have failed. With moral force and clarity, a new generation has made it clear that problems previously deemed unsolvable due to powerful lobbies and political cowardice will be theirs to solve. Born just after Columbine and raised amid seemingly endless war and routine active shooter drills, this generation now says, Enough. This book is their statement of purpose, and the story of their lives. It is the essential guide to the #NeverAgain movement."

Open Fire presents a broad analysis of the social, cultural and political significance of firearms and the worlds they create. Illustrated with a wide range of case material - from North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa -Contents include: Social life of guns: an introduction / Gunscapes : toward a global geography of the firearm / Gun politics : reflections on Brazil's failed gun ban referendum in the Rio de Janeiro context / Of guns, children, and the maelstrom : determining purposive actions in Israeli perpetrated firearm deaths of Palestinian children and minors / Silent but still deadly : guns and the peace process in Northern Ireland / Warriors and guns : the anthropology of cattle rustling in northeastern Africa / Arming desire : the sexual force of guns in the United States / Drawing a virtual gun / "Gun rights are civil rights" : racism and the right to keep and bear arms in the United States / "Man to man" : power and male relationships in the gunplay film / Aiming for manhood : the transformation of guns into objects of American masculinity / "I shot the sheriff" : gun talk in Jamaican popular music / Playing at hate : war games, the Aryan World Congress, and the American psyche / Celebration of violence : a live fire demonstration carried out by Japan's contemporary military /