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Projecting paranoia : conspiratorial visions in American film / Ray Pratt.

Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.P6 P72 2001
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pratt, Ray.
Series:
Culture America
CultureAmerica
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Political aspects.
United States.
Physical Description:
ix, 323 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2001]
Contents:
"Our greatest export is paranoia": visionary paranoia
Film politics
The dark vision of film noir
The 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 femmes fatales
Women and sexual paranoia
Bad cops and noir politics
From assassination to surveillance society
Afterword: new political possibilites in film culture.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-298) and index.
ISBN:
0700611487
0700611509
OCLC:
46777389

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