Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Conspiracy documentaries have a significant impact on dissemination of alternative beliefs, with movies like Loose Change (2005) and Plandemic: The Hidden Agenda Behind Covid-19 (2020) garnering millions of views online. This article offers a cross-cutting analysis of this phenomena, connecting them to Michael Barkun’s concept of stigmatized knowledge, that encompasses ideas related to conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and esotericism. The study discusses the anti-establishment narratives commonly employed in rhetorical strategies of such movies and the ways in which different stigmatized ideas migrate and converge in contemporary film culture – both on a textual and contextual level.
Source: Panoptikum
Author: Arkadiusz Koziorowski
Institution: University of Gdańsk
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408872486