"From discussions of its impact on contemporary television and popular culture through explorations of its use of UFOlogy, conspiracy and technology, this edited collection brings together a diverse range of academics from an assortment of fields to consider the enduring cultural legacy of The X-Files on its thirtieth anniversary"--
"From discussions of its impact on contemporary television and popular culture through explorations of its use of UFOlogy, conspiracy and technology, this edited collection brings together a diverse range of academics from an assortment of fields to consider the enduring cultural legacy of The X-Files on its thirtieth anniversary"--
James Fenwick is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media Arts and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of Stanley Kubrick Produces (2020), editor of Understanding Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: Representation and Interpretation (2018), and co-editor of Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films (2020). Diane A. Rodgers is Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Institute at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and co-founder of the Centre for Contemporary Legend. Her PhD examines the communication of folklore in media and she is the author of chapters on television in Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd (2019) and Nation and Fascination (2021).
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List of Contributors Introduction: A Critical Reflection on Thirty Years of The X-Files James Fenwick and Diane Rodgers (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) Part I: Cultural Legacies: Landscape, Environment, and Technology 1. Space and Location in The X-Files Matt Melia (Kingston University, UK) 2. 'Mulder, it's me': Intimacy, Invasion and Mobile Phones Victoria Scrimer (University of Mary Washington, USA) and Nicholas Stanton (University of Denver, USA) 3. Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance and the (Post)human in The X-Files Alex Goody and Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 4. Agentic Oil and Petrocultures: Black Oil in The X-Files Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse (independent scholars, Australia) 5. Believe the Lie: Digital Visual Effects in The X-Files Tom Livingstone (University of the West of England, UK) Part II: Contemporary Legend: Conspiracy, Belief, Politics 6. 'I want to believe': How UFOs Conquered The X-Files David Clarke (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 7. (Cult)ural Tensions: New Religious Movements and The X-Files Racheal Harris (Deakin University, Australia) 8. The End of History? Contesting the Legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files Gregory Frame (University of Nottingham, UK) 9. 'You believe what you want to believe-that's what everybody does now': The X-Files, Fake News and the Rise of QAnon Bethan Jones (University of York, UK) Part III: The X-Philes: Fandom and Paratextual Narratives 10. The Aliens are not What They Seem: The X-Files and the legacy of Twin Peaks Briac Picart Hellec (Le Havre Normandy University, France) 11. A Very Sci-fi Christmas: An Examination of the Christmas Episodes of The X-Files and Millennium Will Lorenzo (independent scholar, USA) 12. The Truth is.Inside the Panels!: Comic Adaptations of The X-Files Iris Haist (Erich Ohser University, Germany) 13. "X Files till I DIE": Fan Memory from the X-Philes Janelle Vermaak Griessel and Natalie Le Clue (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) 14. Reading into the Romance: Gender, Genre, and the Rabid Shippers of The X-Files Fandom Marissa Spada (University of Michigan, USA) 15. The X-Files and Video Games: At the Threshold of Virtual Reality Ivan Girina and Andra Ivanescu (Brunel University, UK) Part IV: Intersectional Legacies: Identity and Representation 16. Racialized Disability as Narrative Prosthesis in The X-Files Lzz Johnk and Gabrielle Miller (Oregon State University, USA) 17. 'I'm a Medical Doctor, and a Scientist': Powerful Women, Angry Men, and Representational Violence in The X-Files Erin Siodmak (Tulane University, USA) 18. Invasion of Body Snatchers: Queer Theory, Cultural Capital and Desirability of Fox Mulder's Body Klára Feikusová (Palacký University (Czech Republic) 19. A Collection of Human Curiosities: Disability in The X-Files Andrew Sydlik (independent scholar, USA) 20. The Scully Effect: The X-Files and Women in STEM Jolene Mendel (American Public University, USA) Appendix 1: List of Series, Episodes and Films in Chronological Order Appendix 2: The X-Files Main and Recurring Cast Index
List of Contributors Introduction: A Critical Reflection on Thirty Years of The X-Files James Fenwick and Diane Rodgers (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) Part I: Cultural Legacies: Landscape, Environment, and Technology 1. Space and Location in The X-Files Matt Melia (Kingston University, UK) 2. 'Mulder, it's me': Intimacy, Invasion and Mobile Phones Victoria Scrimer (University of Mary Washington, USA) and Nicholas Stanton (University of Denver, USA) 3. Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance and the (Post)human in The X-Files Alex Goody and Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 4. Agentic Oil and Petrocultures: Black Oil in The X-Files Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse (independent scholars, Australia) 5. Believe the Lie: Digital Visual Effects in The X-Files Tom Livingstone (University of the West of England, UK) Part II: Contemporary Legend: Conspiracy, Belief, Politics 6. 'I want to believe': How UFOs Conquered The X-Files David Clarke (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 7. (Cult)ural Tensions: New Religious Movements and The X-Files Racheal Harris (Deakin University, Australia) 8. The End of History? Contesting the Legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files Gregory Frame (University of Nottingham, UK) 9. 'You believe what you want to believe-that's what everybody does now': The X-Files, Fake News and the Rise of QAnon Bethan Jones (University of York, UK) Part III: The X-Philes: Fandom and Paratextual Narratives 10. The Aliens are not What They Seem: The X-Files and the legacy of Twin Peaks Briac Picart Hellec (Le Havre Normandy University, France) 11. A Very Sci-fi Christmas: An Examination of the Christmas Episodes of The X-Files and Millennium Will Lorenzo (independent scholar, USA) 12. The Truth is.Inside the Panels!: Comic Adaptations of The X-Files Iris Haist (Erich Ohser University, Germany) 13. "X Files till I DIE": Fan Memory from the X-Philes Janelle Vermaak Griessel and Natalie Le Clue (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa) 14. Reading into the Romance: Gender, Genre, and the Rabid Shippers of The X-Files Fandom Marissa Spada (University of Michigan, USA) 15. The X-Files and Video Games: At the Threshold of Virtual Reality Ivan Girina and Andra Ivanescu (Brunel University, UK) Part IV: Intersectional Legacies: Identity and Representation 16. Racialized Disability as Narrative Prosthesis in The X-Files Lzz Johnk and Gabrielle Miller (Oregon State University, USA) 17. 'I'm a Medical Doctor, and a Scientist': Powerful Women, Angry Men, and Representational Violence in The X-Files Erin Siodmak (Tulane University, USA) 18. Invasion of Body Snatchers: Queer Theory, Cultural Capital and Desirability of Fox Mulder's Body Klára Feikusová (Palacký University (Czech Republic) 19. A Collection of Human Curiosities: Disability in The X-Files Andrew Sydlik (independent scholar, USA) 20. The Scully Effect: The X-Files and Women in STEM Jolene Mendel (American Public University, USA) Appendix 1: List of Series, Episodes and Films in Chronological Order Appendix 2: The X-Files Main and Recurring Cast Index
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