Emily D. Edwards is Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has produced or directed more than 17 films—from narrative features, to documentaries, to animations, to experimental films—and has also reported as a journalist for ABC and NBC affiliates in Alabama and Tennessee. Tristan Fuller is a Graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design. His current project is writing and illustrating a series to publish in 2020. For more information and more art, go to tristanfuller.com or visit his Instagram @tristanfuller42.

• 1. The Characteristics of Story: Conflict, Chronicle, and Violence 2. The Journeys of Brutal Stories 3. Helpless Audiences and The Magic Bullet 4. Obstinate Violence 5. Learning Violence: The Drama of Aggression 6. Mean Worlds and Remorseless Strangers With Guns 7. What an Audience Wants: Selection, Gratification, and Violence 8. Gender, Hyper-Masculinity, and the Violent Story 9. Terrorism, War, and Media Systems 10. The Violent Aesthetic