Agency in the cinematic conspiracy thrillers
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-677X.rum.2017.135318Keywords:
Cinema, thrillers de conspiração, agência, paranoiaAbstract
Do conspiracy thrillers contribute to the denial of agency in contemporary culture thereby rendering paranoia as its dominant ‘structure of feeling’? Are they irrational oversimplifications or do they call attention to the complexities of the new global order? This paper examines recent conspiracy thrillers in terms of changing representations of agency. I argue that contemporary conspiracy thrillers testify to a growing uncertainty about issues of causality, responsibility, and agency, and to the routinization of conspiracy.
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