Three Madness in the Dead Heart Ed Gein and the Fabrication of the Transgender Heartland “Psycho” Killer Myth

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction QueerCrip Historical Analysis and the Rural White Anti-Idyll 1
4. One Harlots from the Hollow Eugenic Detectives on the Lookout for the Rural White Hovel Family 25
5. Two Curious Scenes The Fringes of Rural Rehabilitation in 1930s Documentary Photography 49
6. Three Madness in the Dead Heart Ed Gein and the Fabrication of the Transgender Heartland “Psycho” Killer Myth 87
7. Four “Maimed in Body and Spirit” The Spectacle of White Appalachian Poverty Tours during the 1960s 119
8. Five Banjos, Chainsaws, and Sodomy Making 1970s Rural Horror Films and the Apex of the Anti-Idyll 145
9. Six Estranged but Not Strangers Nonconformity Encounters Identity in 1990s Hate-Crime Documentaries 167
10. Acknowledgments 191
11. Notes 193
12. Bibliography 225
13. Index 253