...-giving classes could be expanded. While one should not ignore, or even play down, the contingency of the political events that drove this narrative, one can also surely see a dialectical progression at work here, as acts of free speech, each designed to describe, unmask and denounce various conspiracy...

...Conspiracy theory and American foreign policy examines the relationship between secrecy, power and interpretation around international political controversy, where foreign policy orthodoxy comes up hard against alternative interpretations. It does so in the context of American...

...This chapter examines a strand of topical BBC conspiracy dramas from the 1980s which utilised the serial form’s increasing popularity for original drama. Drawing upon 1970s Hollywood films, these presented a paranoid narrative showing the collapse of the procedural certainties that had...

... of religious violence. Over the centuries, its gruesome reputation has generated numerous conspiracy theories. This book seeks dispassionately to sift the evidence and follow where it leads, but also to understand how contemporaries came to terms with the events of 1572. It also follows the reactions of those...

... of religious violence. Over the centuries, its gruesome reputation has generated numerous conspiracy theories. This book seeks dispassionately to sift the evidence and follow where it leads, but also to understand how contemporaries came to terms with the events of 1572. It also follows the reactions of those...

...This chapter engages with approaches that move away from the paranoid style paradigm, using these resources to rethink the issue of Arab-Muslim conspiracy theory. A central theme advanced in what I call the conspiracy culture literature is that conspiracy theories are more common than...

...This chapter examines the widespread concern expressed by foreign policy commentators about the link between anti-Americanism and Arab-Muslim conspiracy theories in the wake of 9/11. It shows that this Arab-Muslim paranoia narrative helped disqualify criticism of American power and limit...

... Operation Earnest Voice Cairo Address Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications ISIS social media sovereignty Lynch Marc Operation Iraqi Freedom Buck Morss Susan conspiracy and modernity Orientalism postcolonialism Said Edward Abduh Muhammad Neoconservatism Qutb Sayyid Bellah...

... with fitness and beauty, some time in an ill-defined future. Acción mutante is an all-out assault on what de la Iglesia has called the ‘conspiracy of boredom’ in Spanish cinema. It tends to literalise what many films leave implicit or metaphorical, and there could be no clearer example than...

...The conclusion examines the gothic conspiracy as a figure for, and vehicle of, interference with free will and, simultaneously, the hidden machinery of history that drives it forward in less-than-providential directions. The conspiracies in the series discussed here mark the failure of masculine...

...Paranoid Visions provides an extensive historical account of the spy and conspiracy genres in British television drama, tracing a lineage from 1960s Cold War series, through 1980s paranoid conspiracy dramas, to contemporary ‘war on terror’ thrillers. It argues that the on-screen...

...The purpose of this chapter is to situate the Arab-Muslim paranoia narrative in relation to a common-sense understanding of conspiracy theory pervasive in American culture. A crucial starting point here is Richard Hofstadter’s paradigmatic account of ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’, which...

... here as inherently problematic. At the same time, the War of Ideas accentuated the contrast between America’s purported ideals and the often-ruthless pursuit of American interests. Under these circumstances, the War of Ideas had the potential to provoke suspicion of conspiracies, double-dealing...

...What happened after the actual Festival? How the expectations of a new dawn, the possible end of the Terror and the proclamation of the Republic of Virtue were dashed by the Law of 22 Prairial. How Robespierre’s enemies in the Convention and its Committees advanced their conspiracy, finally coming...

... of a militant social movement that is still in its formative stage. This is done through an investigation of the wider movement’ three most identifiable components: the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI), the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (CCF), and emergent networks in Mexico such as the Práxedis G. Guerrero...

... Monarchists’ rebellion 1661 rebellion 1685 Cambridgeshire Cromwell Oliver Massey Edward informant Somerset Kent Cooper Anthony Ashley Earl of Shaftesbury James II Laud William Archbishop of Canterbury Communities of memory Solidarity Conspiracy Hope Not all audiences were hostile to seditious...