Editing Shelby, North Carolina (section)

==In popular culture==
The 2004 film adaptation of ''[[Blood Done Sign My Name]]'' was filmed in Shelby<ref>{{cite news|title=Tyson's 'Blood' to be filmed in N.C.|newspaper=Raleigh News & Observer|date=February 13, 2008}}</ref> – as well as the reaping scene in the 2012 film adaptation of ''[[The Hunger Games (film)|The Hunger Games]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-buckworth/hungry-for-hunger-games-e_b_1337411.html |title=The Hunger Games Take Over North Carolina |access-date=28 July 2012 |work=Huffington Post |first=Kathy |last=Buckworth |date=14 March 2012}}</ref> and the 1982 [[slasher film]] ''[[Death Screams]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mondo-digital.com/deathscreams.html|title=Death Screams|work=Mondo Digital|date=10 September 2021}}</ref>

A fictionalized version of the city is the setting of [[HBO]] comedy show ''[[Eastbound & Down]]''. Filmed in [[Wilmington, North Carolina]], it bears little geographic or cultural resemblance to the real place. Actor and writer [[Danny McBride (actor)|Danny McBride]] chose the location as an inspiration because of its size, attitude, and name.<ref name="the_star_eastbound">{{cite web|url=http://www.shelbystar.com/news/eastbound-37319-hbo-.html|title=How HBO's "Eastbound & Down" came to Shelby|last=Cawthon|first=Graham|date=February 28, 2009|work=The Star|access-date=14 July 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322194929/http://www.shelbystar.com/news/eastbound-37319-hbo-.html|archive-date=22 March 2011}}</ref>

The TV show ''[[Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern]]'' visited the 2009 Livermush festival in Shelby.<ref name="shelby_star_5_7_2009">{{cite news|url=http://www.shelbystar.com/news/livermush-38933-channel-cleveland.html|title=Livermush (and Shelby) featured on Travel Channel|last=Allen|first=David|date=May 7, 2009|work=The Shelby Star|access-date=3 January 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509210036/http://www.shelbystar.com/news/livermush-38933-channel-cleveland.html|archive-date=9 May 2009}}</ref>

On November 11, 2007, the [[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen Network]]'s "Captured" aired a profile of [[The Brenda Sue Brown murder]] mystery that took place in Shelby in 1966.<ref name="shelby_star_2_17_2008">{{cite news|url=http://www.shelbystar.com/news/cases-28870-years-case.html|url-status=dead|title=Family still waiting on murder trial|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318204836/http://www.shelbystar.com/news/cases-28870-years-case.html|archive-date=2012-03-18}}</ref>