Conspiracy nation : the politics of paranoia in postwar America

edited by Peter Knight
Bok · Engelsk · 2002

Annen tittel	Conspiracy for pretended reformation
Utgitt	New York : New York University Press , 2002
Omfang	viii, 278 s. : ill.
Opplysninger	Contents: Introduction: A nation of conspiracy theorists / Peter Knight -- Spinning paranoia: the ideologies of conspiracy and contingency in postmodern culture / Skip Willman -- A poor person's cognitive mapping / Fran Mason -- Agency panic and the culture of conspiracy / Timothy Melley -- If anything is possible / Jodi Dean -- My body is not my own: personalizing disempowerment in alien abduction narratives / Bridget Brown -- Injections and truth serums: AIDS conspiracy / Jack Bratich -- White hope: conspiracy, nationalism, and revolution in the Turner diaries and Hunter / Ingrid Walker Fields -- All eyez on me: the paranoid style of Tupac Shakur -- Douglas Kellner, The X-files and conspiracy: a diagnostic critique / Eithne Quinn -- The commodification of conspiracy theories / Clare Birchall -- Forget conspiracy: Pynchon, Delillo, and the conventional counterconspiracy narrative / John McClure.. - Includes bibliographical references and index.
Emner	American fiction - History and criticism Cold War - Social aspects - United States Conspiracies in literature Conspiracies - History - United States Vis mer... Paranoia - Social aspects History - United States Political culture - History - United States Politics and literature - History - United States Popular culture - History - United States United States - Civilization United States - Social conditions usa forente stater historie 1901
ISBN	0814747353. - 0814747361