Identifier
etd-04072005-104024
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
English
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
Feminism has all too often been reified as a theoretical category. Specifically, Marxist critical categories fail to account for the integral importance of gender in any sociopolitical critique. This dissertation attempts to dereify gender and demonstrate a theoretical model that seamlessly integrates psychoanalysis, Marxism, and feminism. Conspiracy culture in America since World War II is an ideal aperture through which we may envision such a theoretical approach, and indeed see the critical need for such an approach. This dissertation looks at several post-war American conspiracy narratives, including Oliver Stone’s JFK and Nixon, Don DeLillo’s Libra, Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe, John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate, several novels by Philip K. Dick, and Fox Broadcast Network’s The X Files. Through this study of conspiracy culture we see the post-war construction of masculinity and its connections to economic structures.
Date
2005
Document Availability at the Time of Submission
Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.
Recommended Citation
Holliday, Valerie Rose, "Conspiracy culture in America after World War II" (2005). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 2676.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/2676
Committee Chair
Carl Freedman
DOI
10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.2676