The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture
All Too Familiar
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2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4762-8 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4762-8 (ISBN)
The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar studies how the mythology of the primitive rural other became linked to evolutionary theories, both biological and social, that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. This mythology fit well on the imaginary continuums of primitive to civilized, rural to urbanormative, backward to forward-thinking, and regress versus progress. In each chapter of The Rural Primitive, Karen E. Hayden uses popular cultural depictions of the rural primitive to illustrate the ways in which this trope was used to set poor, rural whites apart from others. Not only were they set apart, however; they were also set further down on the imaginary continuum of progress and regress, of evolution and devolution. Hayden argues that small, rural, tight-knit communities, where “everyone knows everyone” and “everyone is related” came to be an allegory for what will happen if society resists modernization and urbanization. The message of the rural, close-knit community is clear: degeneracy, primitivism, savagery, and an overall devolution will result if groups are allowed to become too insular, too close, too familiar.
Karen E. Hayden is professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Merrimack College.
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture
Chapter 2: Inbreeding, Cousin Marriage, and the Rural Primitive in Nineteenth Century America
Chapter 3: Inbred Horror and the Rural Primitive in Twentieth Century American Popular Culture
Chapter 4: Inbred Horror Revisited: The Rural Primitive in Twenty-First Century Horror Films
Chapter 5: Murder Comes to Town: The Rural Primitive on True Crime Television
Chapter 6: Not So Familiar: Thinking Beyond Rural Stereotypes
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 213 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-4762-1 / 1498547621 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-4762-8 / 9781498547628 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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