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	Conspiracy fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Because of their dramatic potential, conspiracies are a popular theme in thrillers and science fiction.
		The protagonists of conspiracy thrillers are often journalists or amateur investigators who find themselves (often inadvertently) pulling on a small thread which unravels a vast conspiracy that ultimately goes "all the way to the top".
		The screenplays for two of the best-known conspiracy thrillers were written by the same writer, Lorenzo Semple Jr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conspiracy_thriller (1738 words)

	disinformation \| in defense of conspiracy theories
		Conspiracy theories contain a certain power, and those who treat them as a casual belief, hobby or lifestyle collectively function a bit like a secret society themselves, with various degrees of initiation into the deeper mysteries.
		Conspiracies are so common, in fact, that there should be wacko theorists making Web sites that reveal "rare coincidences that just plain happen." Meanwhile, at all times in human history, other people have theorized that secret societies and conspiracies were the root cause of calamities and other current events.
		If we compare conspiracy theories to religion, similar because both deal with belief in the unknowable, we see a spectrum of conspiracy theorists from the very strange to your friend who believes JFK was assassinated by more than one shooter.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id1767/pg1 (1196 words)

	Extreme Right conspiracy in thriller "The Da Vinci code"
		Conspiracy stories are always about a large bad and invisible power which suppresses the good.
		The genre is characterized by a mixture of all kinds of half truths with straight lies, by the absurd manner of combining various historical and dreamed events, and by the Right and reactionary interpretations of these events.
		Conspiracy connects with real feelings of powerlessness, but it directs our attention away from the concrete daily oppressive relations and puts dreamed and mythical powers in their place.
	www.gebladerte.nl /30092v01.htm (2253 words)

	Conspiracy Theories: Conspiracy theories paradoxically confirm both our powerlessness and our importance.
		Similar conspiracy theories surround the death of many other famous people, from James Dean to Marilyn Monroe to Pope John Paul I. Just watch Godfather III to see a movie version of the death of that pope, with Mafia, Freemasons, and even members of the Catholic clergy being implicated.
		Is this all there is? And, again, mysteries and conspiracy theories help to fill that gap, offering us at a harmless level entertaining diversions or, perhaps on occasion more seriously views of life and reality that appeal precisely because they seem to make the world a more interesting place.
		This was the original conspiracy theory; and it has been the task of the church since not to elaborate this theory but to expose it for the lie that it is.
	www.thetruthaboutdavinci.com /conspiracy-theories.html (1297 words)

	The Da Vinci Code » Book Reviews » Official Website of Dan Brown
		Brown solidifies his reputation as one of the most skilled thriller writers on the planet with his best book yet, a compelling blend of history and page-turning suspense.
		Dan Brown's conspiracy-theory thriller is the pulp must-read of the season...an ingenious mixture of paranoid thriller, art history lesson, chase story, religious symbology lecture and anti-clerical screed, and it's the most fun you can have between the sort of covers that aren't 300-count Egyptian cotton.
		Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.
	www.danbrown.com /novels/davinci_code/reviews1.html (1374 words)

	A SHAKY 'THEORY' / Conspiracy thriller comes up short despite Gibson, Roberts and a promising premise
		In fact, if I were paranoid I might suspect a conspiracy at work in the promoting of this movie -- to suck in audiences with a catchy hook and then give them something much more clumsy and pedestrian.
		``Conspiracy Theory'' starts to sour after the first 20 minutes, once we realize that Fletcher has a history with the CIA, that he's been tortured and brainwashed by government agents for reasons unknown.
		Still, ``Conspiracy Theory'' can be enjoyed once one gives up hope of its becoming a thinking person's thriller and accepts it as just another diversion.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/08/08/DD20603.DTL (715 words)

	Conspiracy Theory (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		User Comments: 'Conspiracy Theory' is another near miss for Richard Donner, but it's worth cracking even so, all thanks to Gibson and Roberts...
		'Conspiracy Theory' tries to coax Donner away from his traditional formula of flying bullets and jokes (seen badly, minus the jokes, in the 1995 dud 'Assassins'), and is ultimately a more highbrow outing for the director than you might expect.
		Easily identifiable as the moment where 'Theory' stops holding water is when the film tumbles into a cat-and-mouse thriller, which sees our misunderstood protagonist finding it increasingly hard to stay ahead of his pursuers, or keep an easy grip on his sanity.
	us.imdb.com /Title?Conspiracy+Theory+(1997) (926 words)

	The Conspiracy Thrillers of the 1970s: Paranoid Time - Article - Stylus Magazine
		If there is indeed to be a revival of the conspiracy thriller, it is undoubtedly the result of the growing feeling that the current imbroglio in Iraq is the result of official deception on the part of the Bush administration.
		Of course, this being a conspiracy thriller, he is allowed to win an unqualified victory at the end of the film.
		The great contribution of the best conspiracy thrillers is to represent political reality psychologically, to tap into a cultural undercurrent of distrust with American institutions without presenting a strictly academic criticism of political life.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=1092 (3449 words)

	TV.com: Invasion actress invades pilot
		Conspiracy will follow an idealistic young lawyer who comes to realize the Washington, DC, law firm she works for is secretly falsifying documents and helping guilty corporations escape justice.
		Plot - "Conspiracy will follow an idealistic young lawyer who comes to realize the Washington, DC, law firm she works for is secretly falsifying documents...".
		Great to see her again in a new show, Conspiracy should be interesting to see.
	www.tv.com /lost/show/24313/story/7302.html (453 words)

	BLOW OUT (1981)
		Often noted as one of De Palma's most personal films, the riveting thriller BLOW OUT stands as a dead-on portrait of America at a time when forgetting painful lessons of the past had become almost a national priority.
		Jack's elaborate view of the conspiracy, the filming of the crash and targeting of witnesses all carry echoes of the JFK assassination and rampant conspiracy theories that followed (a phenomenon satirized by De Palma thirteen years earlier in GREETINGS).
		But what raises De Palma's screenplay above the level of a standard conspiracy thriller is that it focuses on three characters -- Jack, Sally and Burke -- who've each been effectively shut out by everyone who knew of the plot or might care to investigate it.
	www.briandepalma.net /blowout/blwt.htm (806 words)

	Amazon.com: Conspiracy of Tall Men: Books: Noah Hawley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		When the feds fly Linus Owens, a professor of conspiracy theory at a small San Francisco college, to Florida to identify his wife's body at the site of a terrorist airliner bombing, he's devastated to learn she was on her way to Brazil with a secret lover.
		It is at heart, a thriller in the manner of a Hitchcock man-against-dark-forces movie, but at the same time it is a satire of the 90s tendency to see conspiracies everywhere while at the same time a chilling and credible vision of one possible conspiracy.
		Hawley could have easily fashioned an original solution to the perceived need to drop the f-bomb that was every bit as witty and original as the remainder of his fine novel.
	www.amazon.com /Conspiracy-Tall-Men-Noah-Hawley/dp/0671038249 (1991 words)

	Shadow Conspiracy \| The A.V. Club
		Shadow Conspiracy may well be tailor-made for all those who whined about the "incomprehensibility" of Mission: Impossible simply because its complicated plot demanded that viewers pay attention.
		In fact, it seems to have been made to allow its audience to maintain a constant sense of intellectual superiority over both everyone in the film and everyone responsible for its existence.
		It's best that hardly anyone saw Shadow Conspiracy in the theaters; the only pleasure to be found while watching it is in mocking it, loudly.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/2742/print (213 words)

	Historical Fiction - Psychological Thriller: Conspiracy and the Presidential Election
		This prophetic psychological thriller opens seven days before the presidential election with the bombing of America’s twelve HOPE Cities.
		Jane Weisser, campaign director for Sam Howard in a extremely close presidential race, fortunately (or unfortunately) uncovers the conspiracy behind the worst act of terrorism in American history, only she is unable to go to the authorities with it out of fear for her and her daughter’s lives.
		Forced to hatch a counterplot of her own soon after the presidential election, Jane enlists the help of the Reverend Dr. Moses McBride, President of the National African Caucus, whose people were outnumbered to win the war from the beginning.
	www.thetwentyfirstcentury.com (349 words)

	Thriller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		What sets the Horror Thriller apart is the main element of fear throughout the story.
		Most thrillers are formed in some combination of the above, with horror, conspiracy and psychological tricks used most commonly to heighten tension.
		Notable thrillers that have made an impact both as novels and as films include Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal, Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October and successive Jack Ryan stories, Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs and related novels, Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and Congo, and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thriller (1981 words)

	Secret's out: ‘Da Vinci’ mania finally fading - BOOKS - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Simmered by three years of lawsuits, religious debates and conspiracy theories, brought to a boil in May by the Hollywood movie, the craze for all things "Da Vinci Code" is finally fading, publishers and booksellers agree.
		Dan Brown's conspiracy thriller, with its suggestion that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, came out in March 2003, has sold more than 60 million copies and produced a parade of critical scorn, church condemnation and (unsuccessful) allegations of ripping off other writers.
		A test for the current "Da Vinci" market will be Kathleen McGowan's "The Expected One," a speculative thriller about Mary Magdalene released this week with a substantial push from publisher Simon and Schuster and a special personal twist: The author hints that she is a descendent of Jesus and Mary.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14044999/wid/6448213 (927 words)

	26 Keys Articles and Reviews
		"The book could be called a conspiracy thriller, but the government agents are very realistic and sympathetic.
		It is part murder mystery, but the detective is way out of his depth, as are his equally obsessed friends.
		He speeds it up and slows it down in just the right places, and the portrait he paints of Linus is memorable.
	www.26keys.com /reviews.html (350 words)

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		In the movie's view, this is a conspiracy of gargantuan proportions, including, among other participants, the CIA, anti-Castro Cubans, Pentagon covert-operations specialists, Navy doctors, military contractors (Bell Helicopter and General Dynamics Corp. are specifically mentioned), the Mafia and the Dallas police force.
		For Stone, the attacks are an extension of the monstrous conspiracy to kill Kennedy, with the media auxiliaries again taking up their places 28 years after the fact.
		The conspiracy books, in particular, make for a difficult read, since many lack a narrative flow and jump from premise to premise and from point to point.
	karws.gso.uri.edu /Marsh/Jfk-conspiracy/WASHPOST.TXT (18486 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Entertainment: Sen. Cohen crafts conspiracy thriller
		A republican senator from Maine for 27 years and Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, Cohen puts his insider knowledge to work in a global-conspiracy thriller that spans continents and entangles governments.
		Not to give too much away but Cohen will make you shudder with the reminder of how easily the world could be brought to the brink of global war.
		Those who enjoy reading about the turf battles, political power maneuvers and back stabbing that goes on in the highest echelons of government will find a feast here; those who find it mind-boggling that affairs of state are handled in this way will find plenty to get stirred up about.
	www.seacoastonline.com /news/09032006/entertainment-a-s3-harnett30.html (578 words)

	BBC - Press Office - The State Within, new conspiracy thriller for BBC ONE
		Jason Isaacs, Ben Daniels, Sharon Gless, Lennie James and Eva Birthistle star in The The State Within, a new conspiracy thriller for BBC ONE.
		Jane Tranter, BBC Controller of Drama Commissioning, said: "The State Within is a high octane, complex, action-packed conspiracy thriller.
		A cat's cradle of tangled relationships and conflicting interests links the cast of characters through six hours of twists and turns as Ambassador Brydon (Jason Isaacs) slowly realises that he is being played by an invisible puppeteer.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/04_april/26/state.shtml (497 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Shadow Conspiracy
		Served up for dissection this time around is Shadow Conspiracy, a thriller so tightly written that, should you make the mistake of leaving your seat for a quick trip to the little person's room, you will return refreshed and totally confused as to what happened while you were gone.
		It presents the notion of a secret government waiting in the wings, whose tech is so high, whose reach is so deep, and whose killers are so silent and well connected that, well, if this movie were set in Los Angeles you would probably believe that O.J. Simpson was framed.
		Reporter Givens re-appears to help uncover the conspiracy, and before you know it, there's another murder and the pair are on the run.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive/shadowconspiracy.html (626 words)

	Mal Karman's conspiracy thriller proved prophetic. No time for 'I told you so,' though -- he's on to Iran.
		It was the same question a traveling businessman asked him after picking up a copy of "The Foxbat Spiral" (iUniverse Press), a political thriller Karman wrote and published in 1980 that, among other things, predicted a terrorist attack on American soil, described "Orange Alerts" and revealed the identity of Watergate's Deep Throat.
		During the research for the book, Karman asked a former CIA agent what would be off the charts as far as believable conspiracies.
		Karman's inspiration for the book was his fascination with the assassination of President Kennedy, and feeling that the complete truth of how he was killed might never be known.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/12/DDG2BI70CQ1.DTL (970 words)

	PERFECT KILLER, the 2005 Thriller from Lewis Perdue
		Fed by greed and notions of racial superiority, a huge global biotech corporation is about to unleash a killer gene that has rested undisturbed inside every human being for thousands of years.
		Perfect Killer is an investigative thriller because it explores the truth behind the engineering of the warfighter's mind and how that could alter the face of battle.
		Your thrillers all deal in detail with compelling, significant issues of universal appeal and concern (religion and faith in Daughter of God, race and the dark side of genetic therapy in Slatewiper and now, consciousness, free will and the intersection of science and religious belief in Perfect Killer).
	www.perfectkiller.com (2457 words)

	List of conspiracy thriller films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of conspiracy thriller films.
		For a discussion of conspiracy thrillers in general, see Conspiracy thriller.
		Conspiracy (film) HBO (Big Nazis: "The Final Solution of the Jewish Question")
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_conspiracy_thriller_films (372 words)

	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
		It can be categorized within many film genres - it functions as a horror film, a war film, a science fiction film, a fl comedy, a suspense-thriller, and a political melodrama (with additional segments of romance and action).
		Although the film initially failed at the box-office and its plot was considered far-fetched, it anticipated the American obsession with conspiracy theories in the early to mid-60s.
		Frankenheimer followed this film with another political conspiracy thriller, the starkly fl and white Seven Days in May (1964), and with the psychological sci-fi thriller Seconds (1966).
	www.filmsite.org /manc.html (2984 words)

	BBC - Press Office - The State Within
		Jason Isaacs, Ben Daniels, Sharon Gless, Lennie James and Eva Birthistle star in The State Within, a new action-packed conspiracy thriller coming to BBC ONE which rips open the secret doors of the most powerful nation on earth.
		In the murky world of international conspiracy and espionage, your enemies are not always who you think they are.
		The State Within is a gripping conspiracy thriller set in the largest arena in the world.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/10_october/23/state.shtml (392 words)

	The Capitol Conspiracy (1998)
		Action thriller also hinges on planted memories, with stronger direction, more sexuality.
		Conspiracy thriller has similar plotline, more action, bigger budget, weaker script.
		Schwarzenegger action pic has government conspiracy storyline, better action, stuntwork.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=126557 (141 words)

	screenonline: Thriller
		(1929) was also a thriller, using sound particularly imaginatively in the scene when the recurrence of the word 'knife' in the mouth of a gossipy neighbour presses on the heroine's guilty conscience like an exposed nerve.
		Needless to say, not all thrillers of the decade were of that quality, least of all - with a few exceptions - the so-called 'quota quickies', supporting features designed to fulfil as cheaply as possible quota requirements for British films.
		The most significant thrillers of the next decade or so often combined suspense with a social conscience.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/444810 (1179 words)

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