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A Shadow Underneath: The Secret History of Paranoia, Borders and Terrorism in Postwar American Literature and Film

机译:内在的阴影:战后美国文学和电影中偏执狂,边界和恐怖主义的秘密历史

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"The Secret History of Paranoia, Borders and Terrorism in American Postwar Literature and Film" explores the historical re-articulations of paranoia around the problems of borders and terrorism. The introduction discusses the first English definition of "paranoia" in 1811 - "alienation of mind" and "defect in judgment" - by comparing this definition to other early psychological taxonomies of paranoia and arguing that "paranoia" is a border concept. The first chapter analyzes U.S. postwar nationalism, border paranoia and fears of collapsing nation-state sovereignty in Anthony Mann's 1949 film Border Incident, a semi-documentary film noir focusing on illegal bracero smuggling in Imperial Valley, California. The second chapter analyzes Paco Ignacio Taibo's border detective fiction, specifically Frontera Dreams, Leonardo's Bicycle and Life Itself, as an allegory for postmodern identity. The third chapter analyzes the novel and film Flashpoint, a story about two border patrol agents who find a buried skeleton at the border that they discover later is J.F.K.'s assassin, arguing that the J.F.K. conspiracy substitutes for and, ultimately, replaces the actual conspiracy of border corruption and the illegal exploitation of immigrant workers. The fourth and final chapter situates Don DeLillo's fiction, the film and novel Children of Men and Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer and States of Exception within the fall of Cold War nation states and borders, charting the rise of terrorism as a permanent "state of exception" and as the dark side of globalization, modernization and secular society.
机译:“美国战后文学和电影中偏执狂,边界和恐怖主义的秘密历史”探讨了偏执狂围绕边界和恐怖主义问题的历史重演。引言讨论了1811年“偏执狂”的第一个英文定义-“意识异化”和“判断缺陷”,方法是将该定义与其他偏执狂的早期心理分类法进行比较,并认为“偏执狂”是一个边界概念。第一章分析了战后美国的民族主义,边界偏执狂以及对安东尼·曼恩(Alex Mann)1949年的电影《边境事件》(Border Incident)崩溃的担忧,这是一部半纪录片黑色电影,着眼于加利福尼亚帝国谷的非法布拉科罗走私活动。第二章分析了Paco Ignacio Taibo的边境侦探小说,特别是Frontera Dreams,Leonardo的Bicycle和Life Itself,作为对后现代身份的寓言。第三章分析了小说和电影《闪点》(Flashpoint),这是一个故事,讲述了两个边防巡逻人员在边境发现一个埋葬的骨架,后来发现是J.F.K.的刺客,认为J.F.K.阴谋代替并最终代替了实际的边界腐败和非法剥削移民工人的阴谋。第四章也是最后一章介绍了唐·德利洛的小说,电影和小说《男人的孩子》和乔治·阿甘本的“智者”和例外状态,这些都是冷战时期民族国家和边界的沦陷,它标志着恐怖主义的崛起是一种永久的“例外状态”作为全球化,现代化和世俗社会的阴暗面。

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    Cobb Sean Daren;

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