Projecting paranoia : conspiratorial visions in American film /
For decades American cinema has mirrored and promoted the postmodern anxieties and paranoid perceptions embedded in our society. Tapping into the moviegoing audience's own projected fears, many Hollywood films seem to confirm our belief that there are indeed secret sinister forces at work and t...
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
©2001.
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| Series: | Culture America
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Table of Contents:
- "Our greatest export is paranoia" : visionary paranoia
- Film politics
- Dark vision of film noir
- Culture of resistance in the films of the 1960s
- "You may think you know what's going on here" : from neo-noir cynicism to conspiratorial paranoia
- Family values? : the view from Ronald Reagan's closet
- "She was bad news" : male paranoia and femme fatales
- Women and sexual paranoia
- Bad cops and noir politics
- From assassination to surveillance society.