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Title Conspiracy nation : the politics of paranoia in postwar America / edited by Peter Knight.
Publication Info New York : New York University Press, 2002.


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Descript viii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN 0814747361 (pbk.)
0814747353
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Subject Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Paranoia -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 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-
Alt author Knight, Peter, 1968-
Descript viii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
ISBN 0814747361 (pbk.)
0814747353
Subject Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Paranoia -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 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-
Alt author Knight, Peter, 1968-
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  E 169.12 C7  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  E 169.12 C7  4 WEEK LOAN  DUE 29-04-24
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  E 169.12 C7  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Paranoia -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 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-
Descript viii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Alt author Knight, Peter, 1968-
ISBN 0814747361 (pbk.)
0814747353
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