M. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of numerous articles and books on modern literature and literary theory, including Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide (1994), The Modern British Novel of the Left (1998), The Modern American Novel of the Left (1999), Film and the American Left (1999), Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism (2000), Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War (2001), and The Post-Utopian Imagination (2002), all available from Greenwood Press.

• Introduction: Television and the Novel Television and Postmodernism The Twilight Zone and American Society in the Long 1950s: Between the Modern and the Postmodern The Prisoner: The Modern, the Postmodern, and French Poststructuralism in the 1960s Strange Reaganism: Ludic Postmodernism as Cold War Allegory in Twin Peaks Its the Libidinal Economy, Stupid: The X-Files and the Politics of Postmodern Desire Conclusion: Television, Capitalism, and Postmodernism Works Cited Index

M. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of numerous articles and books on modern literature and literary theory, including Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide (1994), The Modern British Novel of the Left (1998), The Modern American Novel of the Left (1999), Film and the American Left (1999), Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism (2000), Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War (2001), and The Post-Utopian Imagination (2002), all available from Greenwood Press.

• Introduction: Television and the Novel Television and Postmodernism The Twilight Zone and American Society in the Long 1950s: Between the Modern and the Postmodern The Prisoner: The Modern, the Postmodern, and French Poststructuralism in the 1960s Strange Reaganism: Ludic Postmodernism as Cold War Allegory in Twin Peaks Its the Libidinal Economy, Stupid: The X-Files and the Politics of Postmodern Desire Conclusion: Television, Capitalism, and Postmodernism Works Cited Index

M. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of numerous articles and books on modern literature and literary theory, including Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide (1994), The Modern British Novel of the Left (1998), The Modern American Novel of the Left (1999), Film and the American Left (1999), Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism (2000), Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War (2001), and The Post-Utopian Imagination (2002), all available from Greenwood Press.

• Introduction: Television and the Novel Television and Postmodernism The Twilight Zone and American Society in the Long 1950s: Between the Modern and the Postmodern The Prisoner: The Modern, the Postmodern, and French Poststructuralism in the 1960s Strange Reaganism: Ludic Postmodernism as Cold War Allegory in Twin Peaks Its the Libidinal Economy, Stupid: The X-Files and the Politics of Postmodern Desire Conclusion: Television, Capitalism, and Postmodernism Works Cited Index