Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film
Item Number
PN1995.9.P6P72
Author/Artist/Editor
Ray Pratt
Type
Book, Hard Copy
Date
2001
Press/Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Language
English
Description
For decades American cinema has mirrored and promoted the postmodern anxieties and paranoid perceptions embedded in our society. Tapping into the moviegoing audience's own projected fears, many Hollywood films seem to confirm our belief that there are indeed secret sinister forces at work and that our lives are at risk because of them. Pratt rev