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 Massacre
If you would like to help some rural folks resist development you can learn more at:
Dunnellon, Untold Stories of a Two River City
Sources:
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.
