Timothy Melley: 2 books
Empire of Conspiracy
The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and...
The Covert Sphere
Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four—a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming...