Appalachian representation has a frustratingly long history of misrepresentation and overindulged stereotypes. When television, films, books, magazines, and other forms of media continually point to a place and name it through these misrepresentations and stereotypes, it creates a form of interpellation and a hefty amount of self-identity. Interpellation, as a process of naming, presents someone with an idea of who they are, and, in turn, the person then takes that idea on as a belief about themselves (Althusser 2014). If you are told enough times that you are Appalachian and therefore you are “ignorant” or “backward” or “[insert trope here],” you begin to believe that, as Appalachian, those are your identity markers, and that makes up who you are. To this, a lack in representation can be just as powerful as a naming apparatus. That lack insinuates and teaches that the missing stories are insignificant or “less than” in...
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Appalachian Queer Film Festival (AQFF)
Appalachian Queer Film Festival (AQFF)
. film festival, co-founder, Tim Ward. West Virginia
, 2014
. https://www.facebook.com/AQFFWV/Journal of Appalachian Studies (2022) 28 (1): 110–112.
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Tijah Bumgarner; Appalachian Queer Film Festival (AQFF). Journal of Appalachian Studies 1 April 2022; 28 (1): 110–112. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/23288612.28.1.12
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