Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film

by Ray Pratt

Book Overview

A lit cigarette glows in the dark. A faceless voice describes sinister forces that are hard at work behind the scenes-a hidden conspiracy that controls our lives and perhaps even our thoughts. Then, like a ghost in the night, the voice is gone, leaving a residue of unease and a whisper of paranoia.

As emblematic as "Deep Throat" in All the President's Men or the "Cigarette Smoking Man" in the wildly popular X-Files, that ghostly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700611487
• ISBN13: 9780700611485
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"