Film & Literary criticism

• Barker, Adam, "Cries and Whispers: What is a Paranoia Movie—Looking at Work from Coppola to JFK," Sight and Sound, 1.10 (1992), 24-25
• Best, Steven, "Creative Paranoia: A Postmodern Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping in Gravity’s Rainbow," Centennial Review, 36 (1992), 59-87
• Braudy, Leo, "Providence, Paranoia and the Novel," ELH, 48 (1981), 619-37
• Brooks, Peter, Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (1984; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992)
• Caserio, Robert, Plot, Story and the Novel: From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979)
• Cawelti, John G., Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976)
• Dickstein, Morris, Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (New York: Basic Books, 1977)
• Freedman, Carl, "Towards a Theory of Paranoia: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick," Science Fiction Studies, 11 (March 1984), 15-24
• Fulcher, James, "American Conspiracy: Formula in Popular Fiction," Midwest Quarterly, 24 (1992), 152-64
• Hantke, Steffen, Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary American Fiction: The Works of Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1994)
• Hilfer, Tony, American Fiction Since 1940 (London: Longman 1992)
• Jameson, Fredric,The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System, (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press; London: BFI, 1992)
• Jancovich, Mark, Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997),
• Jayne, Edward, "The Dialectics of Paranoid Form," Genre, 11 (1978), 131-57
• Jones, Amelia, "‘She Was Bad News’: Male Paranoia and the Contemporary New Woman," Camera Obscura, 25 (1991), 297-320
• Kuehl, John, Alternate Worlds: A Study of Postmodern Antirealistic American Fiction (New York: New York University Press, 1984)
• Lavery, David et al., eds, Deny All Knowledge: Reading "The X-Files" (London: Faber and Faber, 1996)
• Lentricchia, Frank, "Libra as Postmodern Critique," in Lentricchia, ed., Introducing Don DeLillo (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991), pp.193-215
• Levine, Robert S., Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville (Cambridge: CUP, 1989)
• Márquez, Antonio, "Everything is Connected: Paranoia in Gravity’s Rainbow," Perspectives on Contemporary Literature, 9 (1983), 92-104
• McClure, John A., "Postmodern Romance: Don DeLillo and the Age of Conspiracy," in Lentricchia, ed., Introducing Don DeLillo, pp.99-116
• McHale, Brian ,Constructing Postmodernism (London and New York: Routledge, 1992)
• Mottram, Eric, William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need (London: Calder & Boyars, 1977)
• O’Donnell, Patrick, "Obvious Paranoia: The Politics of Don DeLillo’s Running Dog," Centenial Review, 34 (1990), 56-72
• O’Donnell, Patrick , "Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative," Boundary 2, 19 (1992), 181-204
• Orr, John, "Paranoid Fictions: Conspiracy Theory, JFK and Nightmare on Elm Street Continued," Edinburgh Working Papers in Sociology, no.1 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995)
• Palmer, James W., and Michael M. Riley, "America’s Conspiracy Syndrome: From Capra to Pakula," Studies in the Humanities, 8 (1981), 21-27
• Palmer, Jerry, Thrillers: Genesis and Structure of a Popular Genre (London: Edward Arnold, 1978)
• Porush, David, The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction (London: Methuen, 1985)
• Ryan, Michael and Douglas Kellner, Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988)
• Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, "Introduction: Queerer than Fiction," Studies in the Novel 28 (1996)
• Tanner, Tony, City of Words: American Fiction 1950-1970 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1971)

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