Conspiracy nation : the politics of paranoia in postwar America /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Knight, Peter, 1968-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2002]
Subjects:	Since 1900 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. Popular culture. Political culture. Conspiracies. Paranoia > Social aspects. Paranoia. Civilization. Social aspects. American fiction. Politics and literature. Social conditions. United States > Civilization > 1945- United States > Social conditions > 1945- United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of 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.

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