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PROJECTING PARANOIA: CONSPIRATORIAL VISIONS IN AMERICAN FILM

By Ray Pratt. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 2001. 323 pp. $50.00 cloth. $19.95 paper.

Midway through the Capraesque comedy Dave, Oliver Stone appears on CNN's Larry King Live to blow the lid off a presidential conspiracy. "President Mitchell" has been replaced by an impostor, Stone insists to a skeptical King. It is illustrative of the endemic but awkward place of conspiratorial thought in American media culture that the film audience laughs at Stone, the ostensibly loony director of JFK, even as it recognizes that he ...

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