Did YOU know the difference between splatter and slasher flicks?

Library of Congress Subject Heading weekly lists, weeks 48-50

Let me preface this installment of my subject heading analysis series by saying that I am very irritated that lcsh.info/search is gone, not to mention inconvenienced!

You mean there weren't already SHs for these?
150 Anonymous persons [May Subd Geog] [sp2008008440]
450 UF Unidentified persons
450 UF Unknown persons
550 BT Persons
Warrant: The Other Archives : The Archival Value of Photographs of Anonymous People

(A) 150 Meteor showers [sp2008008997]
450 UF Meteor outbursts
450 UF Meteor storms
450 UF Outbursts, Meteor
450 UF Showers, Meteor
450 UF Storms, Meteor
550 BT Meteors

155 Public access television programs [Not Subd Geog] [sp2007025618]
455 UF Community access television programs
455 UF Community television programs
555 BT Nonfiction television programs

The end is nigh
(A) 150 Apocalypse in mass media [Not Subd Geog] [sp2008008436]
053 P96.A66 P96.A662
550 BT Mass media
Warrant: Media and the Apocalypse

(C) 150 College students' art [May Subd Geog] [sp2008005687]
550 BT Art
I'm impressed that they resisted the urge to add a snotty cross-reference.

What's hotter than a dozen cross references?
(C) 150 Congenital insensitivity to pain [sp2008008364]
450 UF Analgesia, Congenital
450 UF Analgia, Congenital
450 UF CIPA (Congenital insensitivity to pain)
450 UF Congenital analgesia
450 UF Congenital analgia
450 UF Congenital indifference to pain
450 UF Congenital pain insensitivity
450 UF Indifference to pain, Congenital
450 UF Insensitivity to pain, Congenital
450 UF Pain insensitivity, Congenital
550 BT Neuromuscular diseases
550 BT Syndromes

Good one, LC!
150 Couples therapy [May Subd Geog] [sp2008009473]
053 RC488.5
450 UF Couples psychotherapy
450 UF Unmarried couples therapy
550 BT Group psychotherapy
550 RT Marital psychotherapy
(A) 150 Marital psychotherapy [May Subd Geog] [sp 85081303]
* 450 UF Couples psychotherapy CANCEL
* 450 UF Couples therapy CANCEL
* 550 RT Couples therapy

Brought to you by the gay cataloging mafia (not my term, I got it from KR Roberto)
(C) 150 Gay private investigators [May Subd Geog] [sp2008008416]
550 BT Private investigators
From the University of Washington (St. Louis). The authority catalog lists LESBIAN PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS as a narrower term, but the authority record itself doesn't yet.

(C) 150 Heterosexism—Religious aspects [sp2008008059]
053 BL65.H47
From the University of Washington (Seattle).

(C) 150 Lesbian private investigators [May Subd Geog] [sp2001006048]
* 550 BT Gay private investigators

From the Department of Scrupulous Attention to Detail
150 Slasher films [May Subd Geog] [sp2003000779]
* 680 This heading is used as a topical heading for works about films that feature teenagers or young adults who are stalked and graphically killed by a psychopathic killer, usually in the course of one night. Works about films that feature explicit gore and graphic violence, including mutilation of the human body are entered under Splatter films. When used as topical headings they are subdivided by the appropriate geographical, topical and/or form subdivisions.
* 680 When subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical and/or form subdivisions, this heading is used for works about slasher films. CANCEL
* 450 UF Bodycount films
* 450 UF Dead teenager movies
* 450 UF Splatter flicks CANCEL

(C) 150 Splatter films [May Subd Geog] [sp2008008408]
680 This heading is used as a topical heading for works about films that feature explicit gore and graphic violence, including mutilation of the human body. Works about films that feature teenagers or young adults who are stalked and graphically killed by a psychopathic killer, usually in the course of one night, are entered under Slasher films.
When used as topical headings they are subdivided by the appropriate geographical, topical, and/or form subdivisions.
450 UF Gore films
450 UF Splatter horror films
450 UF Splatter movies
450 UF Torture porn films
550 BT Horror films
I didn't know the difference, so thank you LC and the fine catalogers at the University of Virginia!

From the Department of Something for Everyone
(C) 150 Snowball sampling [May Subd Geog] [sp2008008458]
550 BT Sampling (Statistics)
550 BT Social sciences—Methodology

Everything Urban, but URBAN FICTION
In a good week for the Urbs, LC added or changed Urban animals, Urban aquaculture, Urban entomology, Urban folklore, Urban geology, Urban Health, Urban high schools, Urban hospitals, Urban hydrology, Urban landscape architecture, Urban pests, Urban plants, Urban runoff, Urban schools, Urban soils, Urban universities and colleges, Urban vegetation management, and Urban violence.

"Changes to existing headings are indicated by an asterisk. (A) indicates proposals that were approved before the editorial meeting. (C) indicates proposals submitted by cooperating libraries."