Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present.
Description:
This thesis is an examination of "paranoid conspiracy" films, a film noir subgenre that emerged in mainstream American cinema in the early 1970s and turns on vast, shadowy conspiracies located within U.S. "power structures" (government agencies, the military, the media) and directed against the American public. Specifically, it focuses on the emergence of these films in the 1970s, their almost complete disappearance during the Reagan presidency, and subsequent reemergence in the early 1990s. P…
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Date:
August 2003
Creator:
Budziszewski, Przemyslaw
Partner:
UNT Libraries