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Empire of Conspiracy – The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America
Taschenbuch von Timothy Melley
Sprache: Englisch

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Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and government plots. At the heart of these developments, he believes, lies a widespread sense of crisis in the way Americans think about human autonomy and individuality. Nothing reveals this crisis more than the remarkably consistent form of expression that Melley calls "agency panic" -- an intense fear that individuals can be shaped or controlled by powerful external forces. Drawing on a broad range of forms that manifest this fear -- including fiction, film, television, sociology, political writing, self-help literature, and cultural theory -- Melley provides a new understanding of the relation between postwar American literature, popular culture, and cultural theory.

Empire of Conspiracy offers insightful new readings of texts ranging from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to the Unabomber "Maniffesto, " from Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders to recent addition discourse, and from the "stalker" novels of Margaret Atwood and Diane Johnson to the conspiracy fictions of Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Kathy Acker. Throughout, Melley finds recurrent anxieties about the power of large organizations to control human beings. These fears, he contends, indicate the continuing appeal of a form of individualism that is no longer wholly accurate or useful, but that still underpins a national fantasy, of freedom from social control.

Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and government plots. At the heart of these developments, he believes, lies a widespread sense of crisis in the way Americans think about human autonomy and individuality. Nothing reveals this crisis more than the remarkably consistent form of expression that Melley calls "agency panic" -- an intense fear that individuals can be shaped or controlled by powerful external forces. Drawing on a broad range of forms that manifest this fear -- including fiction, film, television, sociology, political writing, self-help literature, and cultural theory -- Melley provides a new understanding of the relation between postwar American literature, popular culture, and cultural theory.

Empire of Conspiracy offers insightful new readings of texts ranging from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to the Unabomber "Maniffesto, " from Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders to recent addition discourse, and from the "stalker" novels of Margaret Atwood and Diane Johnson to the conspiracy fictions of Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Kathy Acker. Throughout, Melley finds recurrent anxieties about the power of large organizations to control human beings. These fears, he contends, indicate the continuing appeal of a form of individualism that is no longer wholly accurate or useful, but that still underpins a national fantasy, of freedom from social control.

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Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780801486067
ISBN-10: 0801486068
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Timothy Melley
Auflage: New
Hersteller: CORNELL UNIV PR
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: black & white illustrations
Maße: 241 x 179 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Timothy Melley
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.01.2000
Gewicht: 0,378 kg
Artikel-ID: 131303713
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780801486067
ISBN-10: 0801486068
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Timothy Melley
Auflage: New
Hersteller: CORNELL UNIV PR
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: black & white illustrations
Maße: 241 x 179 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Timothy Melley
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.01.2000
Gewicht: 0,378 kg
Artikel-ID: 131303713
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