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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4572
EAN: 9780815604075
ISBN: 0815604076
Label: Syracuse University Press
Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: 1996-11
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Studio: Syracuse University Press
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Product Description:
The "X Files" is as complex and controversial a phenomenon as the television series "Twin Peaks" was in the early 1990s. Mysterious and macabre episodes, led by fictional FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, captivate devotees week after week. Contributors to this volume examine the same intricate storylines that challenge viewers. Theoretically sophisticated, however, this book provides a forum for the creative process and a discussion of the state of popular culture as a whole. Part police drama, part horror story, and part science fiction, the show has dared to suggest with great seriousness the incredible charge that the United States government is involved in a vast conspiracy with former Nazi and Japanese scientists to assist alien beings in peforming experiments - including genetic hybridisation - on American citizens. Why does a hit series happen when it does? Is there a connection between the coming and going of "Twin Peaks" and the Bush presidency? It the "X Files" a Clinton-era phenomenon, a product of historical, cultural and psychological factors operative in the mid 1990s? Armed with an arsenal of critical methodology, contributors deal with these and many more topics, among them: folklore and myth; the development of cult TV; the show as a manifestation of a major sea of change in the nature of mass communication; cultural dialogue about law and order, freedom and safety, truth and lies; various feminist interpretations; and finally, drawing on sources as diverse as Foucault, Sartre, and Lacan, the essays examine the show from adaptations of body invasion and vampirism and modern horror films to psychoanalysis and semiotic structuralism.
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It is impossible for any urban dweller not to notice the vast array of merchandising that has sprouted from the success of the television show, "The X-Files". That is, of course, the point. Urban dwellers, aged eighteen- to forty-nine comprise a "quality demographic" in the surveys of advertising executives and have therefore become the contemporary focus of television producers, as we are told by Jimmie Reeves in his essay "Rewriting Popularity", one of the collection edited by David Lavery, ... Read More
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Overall, this is an interesting and entertaining volume, but these essays are not for everyone. The essays approach the show from a wide variety of critical angles, which I found quite intriguing. The only major problem I had with the book is that although the writers had 49 episodes to derive material from, they not only chose the same ten episodes to write about, most of them used the same quotes from those episodes. It's almost as if the writers were given these quotes and told to use them ... Read More
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The book "Deny all Knowledge" is one my mom bought me for Christmas, I am 14 years old and one of the biggest X-Files fans on the face of the earth. I found this book VERY hard to understand, yet, I finished it. The words are hard to make out and I don't recommend it to anyone under 16 yrs of age.
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I was hoping for a deep and detailed analysis of some of the themes that run through the X-Files. I did not find it in this book. I found an ill-assorted set of disjoined essays on various aspects of the show, lacking even the depth of insight of a moderately erudite fan. Definitely skip this book.
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At first glace this book seems overwrought with metaphors and overblown interpretations of the show; these authors delve into details that I, as the most avid of fans, would never have noticed. If you are willing to put this aside, and enjoy it for what it is, this is a must have for fans you want more than the trivialities found in many of the other unauthorized books out there. The take on the Mulder/Scully relationship is interesting to say the least, and it provides a look at the online fan base ... Read More
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