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. Placing representative texts in the context of U.S. political and social reality of the last three decades, it analyzes the relationship between the conspiracy theory genre, the "crisis of confidence" in the American society, and the process of formation of American national identity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc4269 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Budziszewski, Przemyslaw |
| Contributors | Benshoff, Harry, Levin, C. Melinda, Armintor, Deborah Needleman |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Use restricted to UNT Community, Copyright, Budziszewski, Przemyslaw, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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