Deny All Knowledge : Reading the X-Files

by Lavery, David

• ISBN13: 9780815604075
• ISBN10: 0815604076
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

The essays in this groundbreaking work constitute a serious look at this controversial-and phenomenally popular -- television show. The authors tackle such questions as: Why is The X-Files so popular Now? How does the show portray women's roles? Is The X-Files a modern myth?

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Generation X - The X-Files and the Cultural Moment	p. 1
Rewriting Popularity: The Cult Files	p. 22
DDEB, GATB, MPPB, and Ratboy: The X-Files' Media Fandom, Online and Off	p. 36
"Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?": Conspiracy Theory and the X-Files	p. 52
"I Want to Believe ... in the FBI": The Special Agent and the X-Files	p. 63
"Last Week We Had an Omen": The Mythological X-Files	p. 77
"What Do You Think?": The X-Files, Liminality, and Gender Pleasure	p. 99
Special Agent or Monstrosity? Finding the Feminine in the X-Files	p. 121
How to Talk the Unknown into Existence: An Exercise in X-Filology	p. 135
The Rebirth of the Clinic: The Body as Alien in the X-Files	p. 148
"You Only Expose Your Father": The Imaginary, Voyeurism, and the Symbolic Order in the X-Files	p. 168
Appendix: Episode Summary, 1993-1996	p. 207
Works Cited	p. 211
Index	p. 221
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