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Reading list

Conspiracy theories, populism and audiovisual media

Konspirationsteorier, populism och audiovisuella medier

Course
MV2120
Second cycle
15 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Spring semester 2025 (2025-01-20)
Decision date
2024-12-05

Ahmed, Sara (2010).聽The Promise of Happiness. Durham and London: Duke University Press, pp. 199鈥205 and 217-218. [9 p.]

Aradau, Claudia and Rens van Munster (2011) Politics of Catastrophe. Genealogies of the Unknown. London: Routledge, pp. 1鈥39 and 68鈥106. [77 p.]

Barkun, Michael (2013, second ed.) The Nature of Conspiracy Belief. In: Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1鈥14. [14 p.]

Bergmann, Eirikur and Michael Butter (2020) Conspiracy Theory and Populism. In: Peter Knight & Michael Butter (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 330鈥343. [13 p.]

Butter, Michael et al. (eds.) (2025) Populism and Conspiracy Theory: Case Studies and Theoretical Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge. [362 p.; Selected chapters]

Butter, Michael (2023) Conspiracy Theories as Populist Counter-Narratives. In: Gesa Mackenthun and J枚rn Dosch (eds.) Subversive Semantics in Political and Cultural Discourse. Bielefeld: Trascript Verlag, pp. 21鈥46. [25 p.]

Butter, Michael (2020) Conspiracy Theories in Films and Television Shows. In: Michael Butter and Peter Knight (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London: Routledge, pp. 457鈥468. [11 p.]

Butter, Michael and Peter Knight (2020) General Introduction. In: Peter Knight & Michael Butter (eds), Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London: Routledge, pp. 1鈥8. [8 p.]

Butter, Michael and Peter Knight (2020) Conspiracy Theory in Historical, Cultural and Literary Studies. In: Peter Knight & Michael Butter (eds), Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London: Routledge, pp. 43鈥55. [12 p.]

Butter, Michael and Peter Knight (2019) The History of Conspiracy Theory Research: A Review and Commentary. In: Joseph E. Uscinski (ed.) Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 33鈥46. [13 p.]

Butter, Michael and Lisa Retterath (2010) From Alerting the World to Stabilizing Its Own Community: The Shifting Cultural Work of the聽Loose Change 贵颈濒尘蝉,听Canadian Review of American Studies 40(1), pp. 25鈥44. [19 p.]

Castanho Silva, Bruno et al. (2017) The Elite Is Up to Something: Exploring the Relation Between Populism and Belief in Conspiracy Theories, Swiss Political 91探花 Review 23(4): 423鈥443. [20 p.]

Chapman, Jane (2009) Issues in Contemporary Documentary. Cambridge: Polity Press. Selected parts. [5 p.]

Chion, Michel (1994) Introduction to Audiovisual Analysis. In: Michel Chion, Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 185鈥2013. [23 p.]

Collins, Karen (2020) Studying sound: A theory and practice of sound design. MIT Press. [Chapter 8] [14 p.]

De Bondt, M., S. Aupers and R. Vande Winkel (2024) 鈥楥onspiracy Theory Goes to Hollywood: An Audio-visual Analysis of the Documentary Film Plandemic鈥,听JCMS-Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

D煤rand, Julia (2020) 鈥楻omantic Piano鈥 and 鈥楽leazy Saxophone鈥 Categories and Stereotypes in Library Music Catalogues, Music, Sound and the Moving Image 14(1), pp. 23鈥45. [22 p.]

Fenster, Mark (2008) Conspiracy theories: secrecy and power in American culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 279鈥289 and 118鈥154. [46 p.]

Festinger, Leon, Riecken, Henry W. & Schachter, Stanley (1956/2008).聽When prophecy fails. London: Pinter & Martin, pp. 1鈥34). [34 p.]

Gorbman, Claudia (1987), Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. [Introduction + Chapter 1, 3 and 4 (pp. 70-91)] [62 p.]

Grusauskaite, Kamile, Jaron Harambam and Stef Aupers (2022) Picturing Opaque Power: How Conspiracy Theorists Construct Oppositional Videos on YouTube, Social Media + Society, 1鈥23. [23 p.]

Harambam, Jaron (2020) Introduction. In: Jaron Harambam, Contemporary Conspiracy Culture: Truth and Knowledge in an Era of Epistemic Instability. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1鈥32 [32 p.].

Harambam, Jaron (2021) Against Modernist Illusions: Why We Need More Democratic and Constructivist Alternatives to Debuking Conspiracy Theories, Journal of Cultural Research 25(1), pp. 104鈥122. [18 p.]

Hofstadter, Richard (1964) The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press. [40 p.]

Hooper, Rosanne (2020) Populism and Conspiracy Theory in Latin America: A Case Study of Venezuela. In: Peter Knight & Michael Butter (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 660鈥673. [13 pp.]

Horn, Eva (2011) Logics of Political Secrecy. Theory, Culture & Society 28 (7鈥8), pp. 103鈥122. [19 p.]

Kinnvall, Catarina (2018) Ontological Insecurities and Postcolonial Imaginaries: The Emotional Appeal of Populism, Humanity & Society 42(4), pp. 523鈥43. [20 p.]

Klein, Naomi (2023) Doppelganger. A trip into the mirror world. London: Allen Lane, pp. 31鈥37 and 147鈥157. [17 p.]

Knust, Martin (2021) Fictionalizing Populism: A Music Analysis of Recent Political Journalist Soundtracks, Mobilis in mobile 1 (1), pp.1鈥11. [11 p.]

Lilley, Sasha, David McNally, Eddie Yuen & James Davis (2012) Catastrophism: the apocalyptic politics of collapse and rebirth. Oakland, Calif.: Oakland, Calif.: PM Press, pp. 1鈥14. [14 p.]

Moffit, Benjamin. (2020) What is Populism? In: Populism, Chapter 2. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 10鈥29. [19 p.]

Mudde, Cas (2021) Populism in Europe: An Illiberal Democratic Response to Undemocratic Liberalism (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2019).鈥 Government and Opposition 56(4), pp. 577鈥97. [20 p] .

Payne, David, Alexander Stagnell and Gustav Strandberg (eds) (2023) Populism and the People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 1-25, 93- 121. [53 p.]

Pigden, Charles (2024) How to make conspiracy theory research intellectually respectable (and what it might be like if it were). Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, pp. 1鈥25. [25 p.]

Pirro, Andrea and Paul Taggart (2023) Populists in Power and Conspiracy Theories, Party Politics 29(3), 413鈥423. [10 p.]

Pontara, Tobias (2025) Sounds of persuasion: 9/11 conspiracy theory and soundtrack rhetoric in Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007) [30 p.]

Pontara, Tobias (2025) Soundtracking conspiracy theory: The role of music and sound in Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009/2015) [27 p.]

Ranci猫re, Jacques (2024).聽Uncertain times. Cambridge: Polity, pp. 42鈥47. [5 p.]

Rogers, Holly (2015) Introduction: Music, Sound and the Nonfiction Aesthetic. In: Rogers, Holly (ed.). Music and Sound in Documentary Film. New York: Routledge, pp.1鈥19. [19 p.]

R盲ikk盲, Juha & Ritola, Juho (2020) Philosophy and Conspiracy Theories. In: Butter, Michael & Knight, Peter (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London and New York: Routledge, pp.56鈥66. [10 p.]

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (2003) 鈥淧aranoid reading and reparative reading, or, You're so paranoid, you probably think this introduction is about you鈥 in聽Touching feeling: Affect, pedagogy, performativity. Duham: Duke University Press, pp. 123-151. [28 p.]

Smith, Jeff (2013) The Sounds of Intensified Continuity. In: John Richardson et al. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 331鈥357. [26 p.]

Stano, Simona (2020) The Internet and the Spread of Conspiracy Content. In: Michael Butter and Peter Knight (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London: Routledge, pp. 483鈥496. [13 p.]

Sunstein, Cass and Adrian Vermeule (2009) Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures, Journal of Political Philosophy 17(2), pp. 202鈥227. [25 p.]

S酶renssen, Bj酶rn (2014) 鈥楧igital Diffusion of Delusions: A World Wide Web of Conspiracy Documentaries鈥. In: Nash, Kate et al. (eds.). New Documentary Ecologies: Emerging Platforms, Practices and Discourses. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.201鈥218. [17 p.]

Tagg, Philip (2013) Music鈥檚 Meanings: A Modern Musicology for Non-Musos. The Mass Media Music Scholars Press. [Chapters 5 and 7]. [75 p.]

Young, Iris Marion (2003) The logic of masculinist protection: Reflections on the current security state. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29(1), pp. 1-25. [25 p.]


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