Conspiracy culture : American paranoia from the Kennedy assassination to The X-files /

Knight, Peter, 1968-

Conspiracy culture : American paranoia from the Kennedy assassination to The X-files / Peter Knight. - xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Conspiracy/Theory 1 --1. Conspiracy/Culture 23 --2. Plotting the Kennedy Assassination 76 --3. The Problem with No Name: Feminism and the Figuration of Conspiracy 117 --4. Fear of a Black Planet: "Black Paranoia" and the Aesthetics of Conspiracy 143 --5. Body Panic 168 --6. Everything is Connected 204 --Afterword 242.

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Popular culture--History--United States--20th century
Political culture--History--United States--20th century
Conspiracies--History--United States--20th century
Paranoia--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Cold War--Social aspects--United States


United States--Civilization--1945-
United States--Social conditions--1945-

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