ISBN:
9780226696881
,
9780226696911
Language:
English
Pages:
263 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cartwright, Ryan Lee Peculiar places
DDC:
307.72097309/04
Keywords:
Conformity History 20th century
;
Country life Public opinion
;
Americans Attitudes
;
Deviant behavior
;
United States Civilization 20th century
Abstract:
Introduction : QueerCrip historical analysis and the rural white anti-idyll -- Harlots from the hollow : eugenic detectives on the lookout for the rural white hovel family -- Curious scenes : the fringes of rural rehabilitation in 1930s documentary photography -- Madness in the dead heart : Ed Gein and the fabrication of the transgender heartland "psycho" killer myth -- "Maimed in body and spirit" : the spectacle of white Appalachian poverty tours during the 1960s -- Banjos, chainsaws, and sodomy : making 1970s rural horror films and the apex of the anti-idyll -- Estranged but not strangers : nonconformity encounters identity in 1990s hate-crime documentaries.
Abstract:
"Ryan Lee Cartwright's book narrates the queer history of gender, sexual, and social nonconformity in the 20th-century rural United States. Cartwright contends that in that period rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white neighbors was transformed into a popular discourse of white social degeneracy. He points to a tension between the idyll (rooted in the national myth of the Jeffersonian yeoman farmer and his idealized family) and the anti-idyll (the gender perversion, deviant sexuality, and uncouth moral values that are associated with rural white populations).Cartwright examines the anti-idyll in different genres from the 1910s through the 1990s: popular science in the 1910s and early '20s, documentary photography in the '30s, news media in the '50s, political rhetoric in the '60s, horror films in the '70s and early '80s, and documentary films in the 1990s"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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