Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-304) and index.
Contents
"Our greatest export is paranoia" : visionary paranoia -- Film politics -- The dark vision of film noir -- The culture of resistance in the films of the 1960s -- "You may think you know what's going on here" : from neo-noir cynicism to conspiratorial paranoia -- Family values? : the view from Ronald Reagan's closet -- "She was bad news" : male paranoia and femme fatales -- Women and sexual paranoia -- Bad cops and noir politics -- From assassination to surveillance society.