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...Lloyd Alimboyao Sy Abstract This article examines how David Robert Mitchell's 2018 neo‐noir film Under the Silver Lake (US) displays the myopia of conspiracy theories, particularly insofar as they ignore gender‐based violence and oppression. The article contends that the film's male characters...

... determinedly pursue traces of evidence suppos- edly erased by the US government and, in consequence, face repeated career- and life-threatening suppressions, while their conspiracy theories appear to oscillate between government- (center...

...- rative to focus on the uncanny coincidences, or connections, of his- tory? The scene fades to a commercial on a freeze-frame of Kennedy, who has become less an anchor to a real-world tragedy than part of a martyrology, a testament to our fascination with connecting the dots in conspiracy theory...

... Trump's New Clinton Conspiracy Theory Is Complete Bullshit,” Mother Jones , 7 October 2020, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/donald-trump-clinton-russia-brennan-ratcliffe/ . 25. Lee, The Ice Storm , DVD. 24. Recall Benjamin Franklin's belief that the turkey would be preferable...

... and the people.”42 Although these claims exaggerate the effects of the UFO discourse, they reiterate the link I am making between outerspace and agency in the 1950s and 1960s: ufology was doing something; it was not just concocting an outlandish conspiracy theory. At the very least...

... Starbuck is at her best with short hair, cargo pants and a vest top.”14 So what’s a girl to do? We might say that the mark of true TV divadom is the audacity to defy producer and fan demands alike and enforce the actor’s hair on the character. As it happens, that is the conspiracy theory...

... anxieties while ultimately working to contain those anxieties. Modleski faults Jameson because of his tendency towards a conspiracy theory and claims her own analysis “avoids imputing to, for example, the board of directors of the Harlequin Company, an omnis- cience about the nature...

... carries particular urgency today, given the fact that self-­referentiality is so thoroughly embedded into the mode of production. But this is not a conspiracy theory. It is ridiculous to insinu- ate that Deleuze or Baudrillard is colluding with the logic of the mode of production, even...

... complet- ing a research project on trauma, fantasy, and the mechanized body in aspects of modernist and contemporary culture. Jodi Dean teaches political, cultural, and feminist theory at Hobart and Wil- liam Smith Colleges. She is the author of Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures...

... of the new, during which, he says, “a great variety of morbid symptoms appear In such times there is a great sympathy with conspiracy theory, as illustrated by the recent furor over the Roswell incident and by the popularity of The X-FiZes.’2 In such an atmosphere...

...- sistic damage.”37 These conclusions were based on a conspiracy theory that placed ultimate power in the hands of corporate patriarchy and relegated no power or sense of agency to the female spectator. Attempts to modify this position, however; have created yet another set of ob- stacles around...

... many cold-war narratives, finds its genesis in World War II, when psychoanalyst Robert Lindner worked at a federal penitentiary and treated an American fascist incarcerated there. Psychological theories of political behavior picked up momentum in the post...

... doi 10.1215/02705346-8631571 © 2020 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 89 90 Camera Obscura More clicks? More money. Nothing will be so powerful in destroying the ROI of a click. Neuroses, conspiracy theories, harassment: occupational diseases of the digital face- worker. Erin...

... in isolated characters who serve as delegates for Godard rather than de- lineating a more global or more generalized theory of enunciation. Godard is certainly the ideal filmmaker for a comprehensive and systematic analysis since his films continually question and even parody...

... Eyes: Popular Conspiracy in Seventeenth-Century Italy,” The Inquisition in Early Modern Europe, trans. John Tedeschi and Erdmut Lerner, eds. Gustav Hennigson and Tedeschi (Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1986) 195. 4. It is in the area of reading as social...

...-Laure Ryan, Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory Telephones are funny things. —Policeman in Sorry, Wrong Number Initial Connections While telephones may well be funny things, they are not always a laughing matter. This certainly holds true for the 1943 radio drama...

.... Thus, what we are considering here is like trauma in that something remains unincorporated into subjectivity. Where we differ from contemporary theories of trauma lies at the level of integration: what we are dealing with can never be assimilated. Kai Erikson has pointed out...

... Theory, Psychoanalysis (New York: Routledge, 1991), 1 – 3, 26, 46, 102. 44. Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, “Transparent Fictions; or, the Conspiracies of a Liberal Imagination: An Afterword,” in Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World...

.... Although he declares near the start that he is “a homosexual,” Green's sexuality is evacuated from the mystery narrative in a way that no other character's is. Drawing on the insights of queer theory and fan studies from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick to Juno Jill Richards, the essay argues that Clue is structured...

..., 1979) on a lighter tone. Despite their connection to invasion films of the fifties, whose vocabulary they employ, the new ver- sions do not engage in the kinds of antistate paranoia that domi- nates television apocalypticism (The X-Files, Millennium) or other action film genres (Conspiracy Theory [dir...