Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: generation X -- the X-files and the cultural moment / David Lavery, Angela Hague, and Marla Cartwright -- Rewriting popularity: the cult files / Jimmie L. Reeves, Mark C. Rodgers, and Michael Epstein -- DDEB, GATB, MPPB, and Ratboy: the X-files' media fandom, online and off / Susan J. Clerc -- "Are you now or have you ever been?": conspiracy theory and the X-files / Allison Graham -- "I want to believe ... in the FBI": the special agent and the X-files / Michele Malach -- "Last week we had an omen": the mythological X-files / Leslie Jones -- "What do you think?": the X-files, liminality, and gender pleasure / Rhonda Wilcox and J.P. Williams -- Special agent or monstrosity?: finding the feminine in the X-files / Lisa Parks -- How to talk the unknown into existence: an exercise in X-filology / Alec McHoul -- The rebirth of the clinic: the body as alien in the X-files / Linda Badley -- "You only expose your father": the imaginary, voyeurism, and the symbolic order in the X-files / Elizabeth Kubek -- Appendix: episode summary, 1993-1996.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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An examination of why the television show that has suggested "that the United States government is involved in a vast conspiracy with former Nazi and Japanese scientists to assist alien beings in performing experiments--including genetic hybridization--on American citizens is so popular.--Cover.
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Title
Deny all knowledge.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mulder, Fox-- Criticism and interpretation.
Scully, Dana-- Criticism and interpretation.
Mulder, Fox
Scully, Dana
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
X-files (Television program)-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.