Conspiracy theories and popular culture have long been intertwined. As the most visible and effective form of communication, mass media holds a tremendous ability to transmit ideas to wide swaths of eager minds. With their implicit sense of drama, intrigue and complexity, conspiracy theories propagate themselves via dynamic characters and themes that resonate with the audience's inherent fears and hopes. This essay collection analyzes the causes and effects of wide-scale misinformation perpetuated by mass media channels. It offers a critical examination of how conspiracy theories are portrayed…mehr
Conspiracy theories and popular culture have long been intertwined. As the most visible and effective form of communication, mass media holds a tremendous ability to transmit ideas to wide swaths of eager minds. With their implicit sense of drama, intrigue and complexity, conspiracy theories propagate themselves via dynamic characters and themes that resonate with the audience's inherent fears and hopes. This essay collection analyzes the causes and effects of wide-scale misinformation perpetuated by mass media channels. It offers a critical examination of how conspiracy theories are portrayed across a range of media, from film and literature to digital platforms. Drawing from diverse academic backgrounds and research methodologies, the essays explore not only how these narratives are constructed and circulated, but also their broader cultural and societal implications.
Robert Spinelli is the archivist for Special Collections at Middle Tennessee State University. He publishes and presents on conspiracy theories and is active in the burgeoning field of death studies. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Robert Spinelli Part I: Literature and Text Of Witches and Witch-Hunts: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Conspiracy Theories Julia Siwek and Florian Zitzelsberger A Symbol for Hope: Superman's Battle with the KKK as a Model for Effective Cultural Engagement with Conspiracy Theories Colin McRoberts Morphology of the Conspiracy Theory Matthew N. Hannah The Hellfire Club: Secret Societies in the Fiction of Marvel Comics and Real-World Parallels Sean Thomas Milligan The End Is Near: Doomsday Conspiracy Theories and Apocalyptic Paranoia Daniel P. Compora Part II: Cultural Mythology and Social Media Conspiring to Be an Ethical All-American Hasmet M. Uluorta From Candy to Contact Killer: Moral Panic and the Fentanyl Contact Overdose Myth Kat Albrecht and Andrew Burns It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Manifestation of Grief: How Sightings of Mothman Reveal the Grief Behind Conspiracy Michelle Drake The Material Ephemera of QAnon "True Believers": A Constitutive Rhetoric Holly T. Hamby Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories in Popular Culture: Blame It on "the Jews" James Weatherford Memes, Schemes, and Conspiracy Machines: How Viral Disinformation Produces a Shadow-Marketplace of Ideas Chelsea L. Horne Part III: Film and A Transmission of the Times: HIV/AIDS Conspiracies and Denialism in Historical Dramas Gordon Alley-Young Gendered Extremism and Horror Cinema: Immersive Depictions of Far-Right Radicalization in Soft & Quiet Tara Heimberger How Conspiracy Theories Manifest Anthropocenic Anxieties: A Post-Human Critique of Humanism Through the Lens of Inside Sutirtho Roy "We're now living in a post-cover-up, post-conspiracy age": The X-Files and the Changing Forms of Conspiratorial Culture Bethan Jones About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Robert Spinelli Part I: Literature and Text Of Witches and Witch-Hunts: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Conspiracy Theories Julia Siwek and Florian Zitzelsberger A Symbol for Hope: Superman's Battle with the KKK as a Model for Effective Cultural Engagement with Conspiracy Theories Colin McRoberts Morphology of the Conspiracy Theory Matthew N. Hannah The Hellfire Club: Secret Societies in the Fiction of Marvel Comics and Real-World Parallels Sean Thomas Milligan The End Is Near: Doomsday Conspiracy Theories and Apocalyptic Paranoia Daniel P. Compora Part II: Cultural Mythology and Social Media Conspiring to Be an Ethical All-American Hasmet M. Uluorta From Candy to Contact Killer: Moral Panic and the Fentanyl Contact Overdose Myth Kat Albrecht and Andrew Burns It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Manifestation of Grief: How Sightings of Mothman Reveal the Grief Behind Conspiracy Michelle Drake The Material Ephemera of QAnon "True Believers": A Constitutive Rhetoric Holly T. Hamby Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories in Popular Culture: Blame It on "the Jews" James Weatherford Memes, Schemes, and Conspiracy Machines: How Viral Disinformation Produces a Shadow-Marketplace of Ideas Chelsea L. Horne Part III: Film and A Transmission of the Times: HIV/AIDS Conspiracies and Denialism in Historical Dramas Gordon Alley-Young Gendered Extremism and Horror Cinema: Immersive Depictions of Far-Right Radicalization in Soft & Quiet Tara Heimberger How Conspiracy Theories Manifest Anthropocenic Anxieties: A Post-Human Critique of Humanism Through the Lens of Inside Sutirtho Roy "We're now living in a post-cover-up, post-conspiracy age": The X-Files and the Changing Forms of Conspiratorial Culture Bethan Jones About the Contributors Index
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