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Regimes of Truth in the X-Files
Edith Cowan University Research Online Theses: Doctorates and Masters Theses 1-1-1999 Aliens, bodies and conspiracies: Regimes of truth in The X-files Leanne McRae Edith Cowan University Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses Part of the Film and Media Studies Commons Recommended Citation McRae, L. (1999). Aliens, bodies and conspiracies: Regimes of truth in The X-files. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ theses/1247 This Thesis is posted at Research Online. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1247 Edith Cowan University Research Online Theses: Doctorates and Masters Theses 1999 Aliens, bodies and conspiracies : regimes of truth in The -fiX les Leanne McRae Edith Cowan University Recommended Citation McRae, L. (1999). Aliens, bodies and conspiracies : regimes of truth in The X-files. Retrieved from http://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1247 This Thesis is posted at Research Online. http://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1247 Edith Cowan University Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorize you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on this site. You are reminded of the following: Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement. Where the reproduction of such material is done without attribution of authorship, with false attribution of authorship or the authorship is treated in a derogatory manner, this may be a breach of the author’s moral rights contained in Part IX of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). -
The Colored Pill: a History Film Performance Exposing Race Based Medicines
University of Denver Digital Commons @ DU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate Studies 2020 The Colored Pill: A History Film Performance Exposing Race Based Medicines Wanda Lakota Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd Part of the Broadcast and Video Studies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, and the Medicine and Health Sciences Commons The Colored Pill: A History Film Performance Exposing Race Based Medicines __________ A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences University of Denver __________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy __________ by Wanda Lakota June 2020 Advisor: Dr. Bernadette Marie Calafell ©Copyright by Wanda Lakota 2020 All Rights Reserved Author: Wanda Lakota Title: The Colored Pill: A History Film Performance Exposing Race Based Medicines Advisor: Dr. Bernadette Marie Calafell Degree Date: June 2020 ABSTRACT Of the 32 pharmaceuticals approved by the FDA in 2005, one medicine stood out. That medicine, BiDil®, was a heart failure medication that set a precedent for being the first approved race based drug for African Americans. Though BiDil®, was the first race specific medicine, racialized bodies have been used all throughout history to advance medical knowledge. The framework for race, history, and racialized drugs was so multi- tiered; it could not be conceptualized from a single perspective. For this reason, this study examines racialized medicine through performance, history, and discourse analysis. The focus of this work aimed to inform and build on a new foundation for social inquiry—using a history film performance to elevate knowledge about race based medicines. -
Paranoid Peoples: Conspiracy Rhetoric in Contemporary Russian and American Culture
Fall 2020 Title: Paranoid Peoples: Conspiracy Rhetoric in Contemporary Russian and American Culture Course: UGS 302 Unique: 60335 Instructor: Keith Livers Time: MW: 3:00-4:30 Place: ZOOM/ONLINE Office hours: TH: 1:00 – 5:00 E-mail: [email protected] Conspiracy thinking has become an important part of the cultural and political landscape in the past decades. The spectrum of paranoia in contemporary (American) culture extends from fiction to film and television, and in recent years has fully entered the realm of political rhetoric. Meanwhile, Russia has been characterized as one of the world leaders in the production of paranoia. This course examines a wide spectrum of conspiracist expression with a focus on cultural artefacts, from such historical texts as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion or The Turner Diaries to the fictions of Philip K. Dick Don DeLillo, Viktor Pelevin and others. Since popular culture represents a major platform for the development of the conspiratorial imagination, we will also be looking at a number of pop culture artifacts that thematize conspiracy and paranoia, such as Chris Carter’s The X-Files, George Axelrod’s The Manchurian Candidate. Secondary works by a number of contemporary scholars working in the field of conspiracy studies will provide the theoretical framework for our discussions. Format: Lecture/Discussion REQUIRED TEXTS: 1. Ubik (Philip K. Dick) 2. White Noise (Don DeLillo) 3. Homo Zapiens (Viktor Pelevin) 4. Ice Trilogy (Vladimir Sorokin) 5. Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Post-War America (ed. Peter Knight) 6. The Turner Diaries (check online availability) 7. -
Stereotypes of Contemporary Native American Indian Characters in Recent Popular Media Virginia A
University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014 2012 Stereotypes of Contemporary Native American Indian Characters in Recent Popular Media Virginia A. Mclaurin University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses Part of the American Popular Culture Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Indigenous Studies Commons, and the Television Commons Mclaurin, Virginia A., "Stereotypes of Contemporary Native American Indian Characters in Recent Popular Media" (2012). Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014. 830. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/830 This thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Stereotypes of Contemporary Native American Indian Characters in Recent Popular Media A Thesis Presented by Virginia A. McLaurin Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS May 2012 Department of Anthropology Sociocultural Anthropology Stereotypes of Contemporary Native American Indian Characters in Recent Popular Media A Thesis Presented by Virginia A. McLaurin Approved as to style and content by: _________________________________________________ Jean Forward, Chair _________________________________________________ Robert Paynter, Member _________________________________________________ Jane Anderson, Member _________________________________________________ Elizabeth Chilton, Department Chair Anthropology Department DEDICATION To my wonderful fiancé Max, as well as my incredibly supportive parents, friends and entire family. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Jean Forward, not only for her support and guidance but also for kindness and general character. -
DECLARATION of Jane Sunderland in Support of Request For
Columbia Pictures Industries Inc v. Bunnell Doc. 373 Att. 1 Exhibit 1 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Motion Pictures 28 DAYS LATER 28 WEEKS LATER ALIEN 3 Alien vs. Predator ANASTASIA Anna And The King (1999) AQUAMARINE Banger Sisters, The Battle For The Planet Of The Apes Beach, The Beauty and the Geek BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE BEDAZZLED BEE SEASON BEHIND ENEMY LINES Bend It Like Beckham Beneath The Planet Of The Apes BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE 2 BLACK KNIGHT Black Knight, The Brokedown Palace BROKEN ARROW Broken Arrow (1996) BROKEN LIZARD'S CLUB DREAD BROWN SUGAR BULWORTH CAST AWAY CATCH THAT KID CHAIN REACTION CHASING PAPI CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2 Clearing, The CLEOPATRA COMEBACKS, THE Commando Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes COURAGE UNDER FIRE DAREDEVIL DATE MOVIE 4 Dockets.Justia.com DAY AFTER TOMORROW, THE DECK THE HALLS Deep End, The DEVIL WEARS PRADA, THE DIE HARD DIE HARD 2 DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY DOWN PERISCOPE DOWN WITH LOVE DRIVE ME CRAZY DRUMLINE DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? Edge, The EDWARD SCISSORHANDS ELEKTRA Entrapment EPIC MOVIE ERAGON Escape From The Planet Of The Apes Everyone's Hero Family Stone, The FANTASTIC FOUR FAST FOOD NATION FAT ALBERT FEVER PITCH Fight Club, The FIREHOUSE DOG First $20 Million, The FIRST DAUGHTER FLICKA Flight 93 Flight of the Phoenix, The Fly, The FROM HELL Full Monty, The Garage Days GARDEN STATE GARFIELD GARFIELD A TAIL OF TWO KITTIES GRANDMA'S BOY Great Expectations (1998) HERE ON EARTH HIDE AND SEEK HIGH CRIMES 5 HILLS HAVE -
Typologies of Evil in the X-Files
TYPOLOGIES OF EVIL IN THE X-FILES BY MAGNE HÅLAND SUPERVISOR: PAUL LEER SALVESEN AND SOLVEIG AASEN UNIVERSITY OF AGDER 2019 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION DEPARTEMENT OF RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY 0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express great appreciation to my supervisors, Professor Paul Leer-Salvesen (University of Agder) and Solveig Aasen, PhD in philosophy (University of Oslo), for their valuable and constructive suggestions during the development of this research work. I would also like to express my deep gratitude to my colleagues at Arendal Upper Secondary School, Steinar Tvedt, Inger Johanne Hermansen, Ane Kristine Bruland and Ida Wullum for their patient guidance and useful critique of my writing in English. Finally, I wish to thank my father, a proud working-class man, for his support and encouragement throughout my whole life. Throughout his life, he was never able to read English. Therefore, he “forced” me to translate my work for him. The Nazi-form of evil with Himmler, Mengele and Eichmann concerned him. Often, he asked me, how could a man (Eichmann) be that blinded? Without my father giving me motivation, I would never have come this far in my studies. 1 CONTENTS ABSTRACT …..5 CHAPTER 1, INTRODUCTION 1.1) General introduction of evil in movies …..6-7 1.2) My Research Question ……7 1.3) A short overview on the typologies of evil …..7-9 1.4) Defining evil …..9-10 1.5) A critique and defense of evil ….10-12 1.6) What is The X-files about? ….12-14 1.7) Why explore The X-Files? …..14-15 CHAPTER 2, METHODS 2.1) Theory and applied ethics …..16-18 2.2) Specific evil episodes as subjects for research and constructing analysis chapters ..18-19 2.3) The importance of using scientific work related to movies and evil …..19-21 2.4) Methodological inspiration for my thesis, work done by Dean A. -
Conspiracy in Contemporary Russian and American Culture Course
Course Title: Paranoid Fictions: Conspiracy in Contemporary Russian and American Culture Course No.: REE386 Unique No: Instructor: Keith Livers Meeting Time & Place: TH: 2:00 – 5:00, CMA 3.108 Office Hours: M: 2:00 – 5:00 There is no denying that conspiracy thinking has become an important part of the cultural and political landscape in the past decades. The spectrum of paranoia in contemporary (American) culture extends from fiction to film and television, and most recently into the realm of political rhetoric. Meanwhile, Russia has been characterized as one of the world leaders in the production of paranoia. This course examines a wide spectrum of conspiracist expression, from such historical texts as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the fictions of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Viktor Pelevin and others. Since popular culture represents a major platform for the development of the conspiratorial imagination, we will also be looking at a number of pop culture artifacts that thematize conspiracy and paranoia, such as Chris Carter’s The X-Files, Oliver Stone’s JFK, and others. Secondary works by a number of contemporary scholars working in the field of conspiracy studies will provide the theoretical framework for our discussions. Required TEXTS: DeLillo, Don. White Noise Dick, Philip K. Ubik Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Demons Pelevin, Viktor. Homo Zapiens Pelevin, Viktor. Empire V: The Prince of Hamlet Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. GRADING: Research paper: 40%: Presentation: 30% Participation: 30% WEEK ONE: Thu: Introduction to the course. WEEK TWO: Thu: READ: Read pp. 1-115 in course pack. -
Citas X-Files Paper Esse
Oblique Politics: The Conspiracy Theory at the Heart of The X-Files Sara Martín, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Seminar “Popular Narratives and Contemporary Worlds” 7th Conference European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Universidad de Zaragoza 2004 Along 9 seasons (1993-2002) The X-Files has charmed its audience with a convoluted narrative dealing with the efforts of plucky FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully to unmask a vast conspiracy. This will result in the invasion of planet Earth in the year 2012 by extraterrestrial aliens of unknown origin. This serial within the series, which spans about one third of The X-Files and was dubbed the ‘mythology’ by producer Chris Carter, reached thus a devastating end. The hero and his partner were left stranded outside the already infiltrated FBI, resigned to facing the future only with the dimmest hope that they might resist the aliens’ plans. The ‘mythology’ is a classic conspiracy theory narrative and, as such, it unfolds imitating strip-tease dancers, slowly unveiling for the heroes’ and the audience’s benefit the ‘truth’ behind the gargantuan lies. As happens in all narratives of this subgenre, the hero begins a quest soon stumbling upon obstacles that make him doubt the steps taken so far and even the very reason for his quest –only to hit on a much larger, sinister truth. Thus, convinced that his little sister Samantha was abducted by extraterrestrials, Mulder discovers with Scully’s help that she’s part of a project begun in 1947 when contact was made with the aliens that crashed-landed in Roswell. -
Haunted Detectives: the Mysteries of American Trauma
HAUNTED DETECTIVES: THE MYSTERIES OF AMERICAN TRAUMA DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Brian R. Hauser, B.A., M.A. The Ohio State University 2008 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Professor Jared Gardner, Adviser Professor James Phelan ____________________________________ Professor Linda Mizejewski Adviser English Graduate Program Copyright by Brian R. Hauser 2008 ABSTRACT In this dissertation, I investigate American motion picture narratives from the 1990s in which detectives encounter the supernatural. These narratives did not originate during this decade, but there were a remarkable number of them compared to previous periods. I argue that the supernatural is often analogous to personal, national, or cultural trauma. I further suggest that a detective investigating the supernatural stands in for the psychoanalyst, who studies and treats this trauma. I then trace the origins of the supernatural detective in history, as well as in British and American popular fiction. To begin, I discuss Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999) as an example of a supernatural detective, who is himself traumatized but who also manages to solve the supernatural mystery in the eponymous village. That solution points to the obscured narrative of women’s rights in the early-American republic. Next, I suggest that spaces can be traumatized like people. I introduce the concept of the chronotope of the traumatized space, which I then apply to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and its various film and television adaptations to argue that these influential haunted house tales have helped repress scientific research into the paranormal as a reputable field of inquiry and the paranormal researcher as an admirable calling. -
The Breakthrough Character of the X-Files: Genre Hybridity and Narrative Structure
Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis • No 3869 Literatura i Kultura Popularna XXIV, Wrocław 2018 DOI: 10.19195/0867-7441.24.13 Agnieszka Smoręda ORCID: 0000-0001-7451-0933 University of Łódź The breakthrough character of The X-Files: Genre hybridity and narrative structure Keywords: The X-Files, narrative complexity, narrative strategies, genre hybridity, TV series, television Słowa kluczowe: Z Archiwum X, złożoność narracyjna, strategie narracyjne, hybrydyzacja gatunkowa, serial, telewizja The beginning of the 1990s was for the United States a particular time. The end of the Cold War and the lack of an easily identifiable external enemy forced many Americans to focus on the country’s internal problems.1 At the same time, the entertainment industry, television in particular, began to change as well. The technological evolution made television producers ever so boldly use the achieve- ments of the film industry, such as hand-held cameras, first incorporated in the late 1980s in the TV series Hill Street Blues (created by Steven Bochco, Michael Ko- zoll, 1981–1987) and popularized in the following decade.2 For television’s Big Three — NBC, ABC, and CBS — new competition emerged through the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company. It began broadcasting in 1986 and only seven years later, in January 1993, FOX started offering original programming seven days a week, thus gaining the status of a broadcasting network. In the fall of the same year, The X-Files (created by Chris Carter, 1993–2002, 2016–2018), a defining series of the 1990s, debuts. The purpose of the following article is to examine the innovative character of the series, using on the one hand genre theory and on the other, David Bordwell’s historical poetics adapted by Jason Mittell “to understand the formal storytelling 1 L. -
Galaxy's Secrets Land Safely in Desert
www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY Ministry helps comfort kids facing traumatic times in their lives. See B1 TOOELETRANSCRIPT BULLETIN January 17, 2006 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 112 NO. 68 50 cents Galaxy’s secrets land safely in desert by Karen Hunt STAFF WRITER Humans are one step closer to understanding the origins of the solar system. Sunday at 3:10 a.m. the Stardust space cap- sule gracefully alighted in the Tooele County desert during a break in the morning storm. The gray saucer-shaped capsule bounced three times leaving imprints in the wet earth — and getting mud on its nose — before resting intact with its precious bits of cometary and interstellar particles. After a seven-year trip of 2.88 billion miles, the capsule landed uncompromised just 7-8 kilo- meters north of the expected landing area. This time NASA experienced success. It was a stark contrast to over a year earlier when the Genesis sample crashed into the earth leaving researchers to sift through desert sands to find the highly coveted space particles. The Stardust spacecraft released its sample return capsule at 10:57 p.m. Saturday. The cap- sule entered the atmosphere at 2:57 a.m. Sunday and was visible in the crisp darkness of the sky for about 30 seconds. Spectators in Wendover and even in Dugway were able to see the light of the manmade “comet” in the sky and hear the sonic boom reverberate through the stillness. While most of the crowd in Wendover were SEE STARDUST ON A2 Die-hard space enthusiasts greet capsule photography / Troy Boman by Mark Watson STAFF WRITER Three in the morning was not the most convenient time for star gazing, but about 40 people showed up at the Wendover Airport Sunday to see the Stardust space capsule streak through the sky en route to its touchdown in the west desert. -
The X-Files, I Want to Believe: Mundo Posible O Mundo Presente?*
Universidad de Medellín Conspiración y nuda vida ¿The X-Files, I want to believe: mundo posible o mundo presente?* Luis Nitrihual Valdebenito** Juan Manuel Fierro Bustos*** Carlos Reyes Velásquez**** Francisco Henríquez Morales***** Recibido: 2017-04-22 Enviado a pares: 2017-05-25 Aprobado por pares: 2017-07-18 Aceptado: 2017-07-25 DOI: 10.22395/angr.v16n31a3 Resumen El presente artículo problematiza, en general, la conspiración como una estructura política y narrativa fundamental de la Modernidad. A través de un análisis fílmico de la serie The X-Files, I want to believe, planteamos como objetivo revelar como el tópico de la conspiración, en un nivel superficial, es un articulador de la trama de la serie, pero en un nivel profundo y amplio entendemos la conspiración como una estrategia articuladora de la vida moderna y, en este marco, del control biopolítico. Así entonces, el artículo muestra cómo la estructura argumentativa de la serie propone tramas y personajes a través de los cuales el poder gubernamental interviene los cuerpos y el espacio, quita y permite la vida, distorsiona la realidad, informa y desinforma. Todo es parte de una estrategia global de confabulación y ocultamiento de la verdad. En conclusión, la serie de televisión permite observar los regímenes de hipervisibilidad e intervención de la máquina gubernamental actual y es, en esta medida, un punto de entrada para reconocer problemas sociales y políticos de total actualidad. Palabras clave: series de televisión; cine; conspiración; nuda vida; control; Archivos Secretos X; estado de excepción; biopolítica. * Artículo producto de los proyectos de investigación FONDECYT n.º 1141289 y FONDECYT n.º 1161253, PLU n.º 1110 y PLU n.º 120010 financiados por el Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología.