Conspiracy nation
Subtitle: the politics of paranoia in postwar America
By: edited by Peter Knight.
Contributors: Knight, Peter, 1968-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: 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-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A nation of conspiracy theorists / Peter Knight; title: Spinning paranoia: the ideologies of conspiracy and contingency in postmodern culture / Skip Willman; title: A poor person's cognitive mapping / Fran Mason; title: Agency panic and the culture of conspiracy / Timothy Melley; title: If anything is possible / Jodi Dean; title: My body is not my own: personalizing disempowerment in alien abduction narratives / Bridget Brown; title: Injections and truth serums: AIDS conspiracy / Jack Bratich; title: White hope: conspiracy, nationalism, and revolution in the Turner diaries and Hunter / Ingrid Walker Fields; title: All eyez on me: the paranoid style of Tupac Shakur; title: Douglas Kellner, The X-files and conspiracy: a diagnostic critique / Eithne Quinn; title: The commodification of conspiracy theories / Clare Birchall; title: Forget conspiracy: Pynchon, Delillo, and the conventional counterconspiracy narrative / John McClure.