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“All Alone Against the Whole World”: Menace, Journalists, and Media in the American Paranoid Conspiracy Thrillers of the 1970s

Author(s): Elżbieta Durys
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Media studies, Communication studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: paranoid conspiracy thriller; american cinema
Summary/Abstract: Paranoid conspiracy thrillers, as a fully developed genre, emerged in the American cinema of the 1970s. Among the reasons for its development film critics enumerate both social and political situation in the US in the 1960s and 1970s, and the tendency towards paranoid conspiracy thinking prevalent among Americans. In her article, Elżbieta Durys analyses paranoid conspiracy thrillers of the 1970s as well as the context of their development. She focuses on: "The Parallax View" (1974), "All the President’s Men" (1976), "Network" (1976), "Capricorn One" (1978), and "The China Syndrome" (1979), i.e. movies with the motif of media. A critical perspective towards the role and place of mass media in American society is attenuated by the introduction of a journalist, who tries to reveal the truth. Thus one of the key myths of American culture is reestablished – the one of the lone figure capable of defying the whole world.

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