Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files Paperback - 2000
by Peter Knight
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At the turn of the millennium in America it seems that conspiracy theories are everywhere.
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Conspiracy theories are everywhere in postwar American culture. From postmodern novels to The X-Files, and from gangsta rap to feminist polemic, there is a widespread suspicion that sinister forces are conspiring to take control of our national destiny, our minds, and even our bodies. Conspiracy explanations can no longer be dismissed as the paranoid delusions of far-right crackpots. Indeed, they have become a necessary response to a risky and increasingly globalized world, in which everything is connected but nothing adds up.
Through an engaging and cogent analysis of books such as Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, Don DeLillo's Underworld, movies such as Oliver Stone's JFK, the Internet, and other forms of popular culture, Peter Knight explores how conspiracy culture has developed, from the 1960s' countercultural suspicions about the authorities to the 1990s, where a paranoid attitude is both routine and ironic. Conspiracy Culture analyzes conspiracy narratives about familiar topics like the Kennedy assassination, alien abduction, body horror, AIDS, crack cocaine, the New World Order, as well as more unusual ones like the conspiracies of patriarchy and white supremacy.
Conspiracy Culture shows how Americans have come to distrust not only the narratives of the authorities, but even the authority of narrative itself to explain What Is Really Going On. From the complexities of Thomas Pynchon's novels to the endless mysteries of The X-Files, Knight argues that contemporary conspiracy culture is marked by an infinite regress of suspicion. Trust no one, because we have met the enemy and it is us.Details
- Title Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files
- Author Peter Knight
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, London ; New York
- Date 2000-11-23
- ISBN 9780415189781 / 0415189780
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.18 x 0.71 in (23.47 x 15.70 x 1.80 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Civilization - 1945-, Popular culture - United States - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00062744
- Dewey Decimal Code 973
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2001, Page 50
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