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Pleasant Valley as Funhouse Mirror: Regional Othering, Racial Displacement, and the Politics of the Hillbilly Icon in Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Two Thousand Maniacs!
By erasing Black presence entirely, displacing the historical reality of racial violence onto white-on-white revenge, and reviving the hillbilly icon in its most unabashedly vicious form, Lewis’s film enables audiences[…]
