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Conspiracy nation : the politics of paranoia in postwar America
- Title
- Conspiracy nation : the politics of paranoia in postwar America / edited by Peter Knight.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Knight, Peter, 1968-
- Description
- viii, 278 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Politics of paranoia in postwar America
- Subject
- Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
- Political culture > United States > History > 20th century
- Conspiracies > United States > History > 20th century
- Paranoia > Social aspects > History > United States > 20th century
- Cold War > Social aspects > United States
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Conspiracies in literature
- Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- United States > Civilization > 1945-
- United States > Social conditions > 1945-
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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": alien abduction and the struggle for self-control / Bridget Brown -- Injections and truth serums: AIDS conspiracy theories and the politics of articulation / 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 / Eithne Quinn -- The X-files and conspiracy: a diagnostic critique / Douglas Kellner -- The commodification of conspiracy theory / Clare Birchall -- Forget conspiracy: Pynchon, DeLillo, and the conventional counterconspiracy narrative / John A. McClure.
- Call Number
- ILH 02-3537
- ISBN
- 0814747353 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814747361 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001006231
- OCLC
- 48241266
- Title
- Conspiracy nation : the politics of paranoia in postwar America / edited by Peter Knight.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Knight, Peter, 1968-
- Research Call Number
- ILH 02-3537