The Chain Saw - From the Backyard to the Barbecue

In 19 50 the chain saw was introduced to the american market. Men were empowered with a remarkable new technology for clearing undergrowth, trimming branches and felling trees. Such a radical technological transformation of the basic means to cut down trees sidles up alongside such intrinsically american notions as self determination,. manifest destiny, the logging industry and the myth of frontier. And so here curry goes on to argue that the texas chainsaw massacre, massacr very much builds on all this. The sawyer family, the chainsaw family, if you will, are a rural version of the American dream. They are entrepanuers doing what they have to do to survive in the face economic