Legacy of The X-Files, The

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PART ONE Cultural legacies: Landscape, environment, technology
	1 Space and location in The X-Files (Matthew Melia)
	2 ‘Mulder, it’s me’: Intimacy, invasion and mobile phones (Victoria Scrimer and Nicholas Stanton)
	3 Artificial intelligence, surveillance and the (post-)human in The X-Files (Alex Goody and Antonia Mackay)
	4 Agentic oil and petrocultures: Black oil in The X-Files (Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse)
	5 Believe the lie: Digital visual effects in The X-Files (Tom Livingstone)
PART TWO Contemporary legend: Conspiracy, belief and politics
	6 ‘I want to believe’: How UFOs conquered The X-Files (David Clarke)
	7 (Cult)ural tensions: New religious movements and The X-Files (Racheal Harris)
	8 The end of history?: Contesting the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files (Gregory Frame)
	9 ‘You believe what you want to believe – that’s what everybody does now’: The X-Files, fake news and the rise of QAnon (Be
PART THREE The X-Philes: Fandom and paratextual narratives
	10 To escape a legacy: The influence of Twin Peaks on The X-Files (Briac Picart Hellec)
	11 A very scary X-Mas: (William J. Lorenzo)
	12 ‘The Truth is …’ inside the panels!: Comic adaptations of The X-Files (Iris Haist)
	13 ‘X Files till I DIE’: Fan memory from the X-Philes (Natalie Le Clue and Janelle Vermaak-Griessel)
	14 Reading into the romance: Gender, genre and the rabid fangirls of The X-Files (Marissa Spada)
	15 ‘The real is out there’: Digital games and cyberculture at the threshold of virtual reality in The X-Files (Ivan Giri
PART FOUR Intersectional legacies: Identity and representation
	16 A reparative reading of mad/disabled Black veterans in ‘Sleepless’ (Lzz Johnk and Gabrielle Miller)
	17 ‘I’m a medical doctor, and a scientist’: Powerful women, angry men and representational violence in The X-Files ( Erin
	18 Invasion of body snatchers: Fox Mulder’s queerness, monstrosity and status quo (Kla´ra Feikusova´)
	19 ‘A collection of human curiosities’: Disability in The X-Files (Andrew Sydlik)
	20 The Scully effect: The X-Files and women in STEM (Jolene Mendel)
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