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Episode Synopsis
This episode explores the fear of rural people and the still existing periphery in America through three of the more well known backwoods horror movies: Jeepers Creepers, Deliverance, and The Texas Chainsaw MassacreIf you would like to help some rural folks resist development you can learn more at:Dunnellon, Untold Stories of a Two River CitySources:Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. “Monster Culture (Seven Theses).” University of Minnesota Press.Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Columbia University Press. 1982.Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. 1992.The Cannibal Pig People of Pig Hill by American Hysteria
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