Aaron Gulyas

Paranormal and the Paranoid

Conspiratorial Science Fiction Television

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores a genre of American science fiction television which emerged in the 1990s-that of conspiratorial science fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781442251137
• ISBN-10: 1442251131
• Artikelnr.: 42283456

Autorenporträt

Aaron Gulyas is associate professor of history at Mott Community College and also serves as a faculty technology consultant for the college's Center for Teaching and Learning. He is the author of Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales since the 1950s (2013) and The Paranormal and the Paranoid: Conspiratorial Science Fiction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Conspiracy Theory and the Paranormal in the Late Twentieth
Century
Chapter 2: Paranoid and Paranormal Precursors from the 1960s to the 1990s
Chapter 3: The X-Files: The Intersection of Real and Manufactured Mythology
Chapter 4: "History as We Know It Is a Lie": Dark Skies, Roswell, and
Paranoid History in 1990s Television
Chapter 5: Sinister Forces: The Conspiratorial Mood in 1990s Science
Fiction Television
Chapter 6: Our Dark Future: The Intersection of Conspiracy and Technology
Epilogue: Changing Times and Changing Fears
Videography
Bibliography
Index
About the Author