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Empire of conspiracy : the culture of paranoia in postwar America
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- Creator
- Timothy Melley
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- ix, 239 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801436680, 9781501713002, 1501713000, 0801486068, 9780801486067, 1501713019, 9780801436680, 9781501713019
- OCLC
- ocn747305305, ocm42002750
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.
- Introduction: The Culture of Paranoia -- The Depth Boys -- Agency Panic -- Crises of Interpretation -- Bodily Symptoms, Cultural Pathologies -- Influencing Machines -- Postmodern Transference -- The Representation of Social Control -- Bureaucracy and Its Discontents -- The New Line of Americans -- Social Characters -- Paranoid Prescriptions -- The Shadow of the Firm -- Anti-Socialism -- Bureaucratic Individuals -- Syndicate-Nation -- Bodies Incorporated -- Incoming Mail -- The Body We Can Measure -- Pornographies of Deduction -- Statistical Oddities -- Personalities Replaced by Abstractions of Power -- Stalked by Love -- Alien Invaders -- Female Paranoia -- A Distrust of Surfaces -- Abnormally Normal -- Anonymous Effects -- Secret Agents -- Lone Gunman and Social Body -- Archaeological Details -- A Cardboard Cutout -- The Secrets of the Masses -- Central Intelligence -- The Logic of Addiction -- Bad Habits -- Control Addicts -- The Junk Virus -- Cellular Panic -- Reconditioning Centers -- Epilogue: Corporate Futures -- Postmodern Constructs -- Artificial Intelligence -- In Memoriam to Memory
Subjects
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Conspiracies in literature.
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Political fiction, American -- History and criticism.
- Paranoia -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Social problems in literature.
- Paranoia in literature.
- Political sociology.
- Paranoia -- United States.
- Conspiracies -- United States.
- Popular culture -- United States.
- United States -- Civilization -- 1945-