Steven Warwick
Fear Indexing The X-Files
For Fear Indexing The X-Files, Nora Khan and Steven Warwick combed through the first 9 seasons of The X-Files television series—which ran from 1992 to 2002—gathering and indexing the fears that occurred as themes throughout the show. The authors employ a documentary-style commentary to narrate how the show posited fear as an inherent quality of domestic life. The original run of the series aired in the period nestled between the end of the Cold War and the start of the War on Terror—a time i…