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The Lizard People Don't Want You to Read This: Essays on Conspiracy Theory in Popular Culture - Softcover

 
9781476694856: The Lizard People Don't Want You to Read This: Essays on Conspiracy Theory in Popular Culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1476694850 ISBN 13: 9781476694856
Verlag: McFarland, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1476694850
ISBN 13 
9781476694856
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
266
Herausgeber
Spinelli Robert
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