Deny all knowledge : reading The X files
David Lavery (Editor), Angela Hague (Editor), Marla Cartwright (Editor)
An examination of why the television show that has suggested "that the United States government is involved in a vast conspiracy with former Nazi and Japanese scientists to assist alien beings in performing experiments--including genetic hybridization--on American citizens is so popular.--Cover
Print Book, English, ©1996
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y., ©1996
Readings
x, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
9780815627173, 9780815604075, 0815627173, 0815604076
35017539
Introduction: generation X
the X-files and the cultural moment / David Lavery, Angela Hague, and Marla Cartwright
Rewriting popularity: the cult files / Jimmie L. Reeves, Mark C. Rodgers, and Michael Epstein
DDEB, GATB, MPPB, and Ratboy: the X-files' media fandom, online and off / Susan J. Clerc
"Are you now or have you ever been?": conspiracy theory and the X-files / Allison Graham
"I want to believe ... in the FBI": the special agent and the X-files / Michele Malach
"Last week we had an omen": the mythological X-files / Leslie Jones
"What do you think?": the X-files, liminality, and gender pleasure / Rhonda Wilcox and J.P. Williams
Special agent or monstrosity?: finding the feminine in the X-files / Lisa Parks
How to talk the unknown into existence: an exercise in X-filology / Alec McHoul
The rebirth of the clinic: the body as alien in the X-files / Linda Badley
"You only expose your father": the imaginary, voyeurism, and the symbolic order in the X-files / Elizabeth Kubek
Appendix: episode summary, 1993-1996