Something that I think is underappreciated, or at least inarticulated, is the presence of paranoia as a central feel and tone in art. Personally, I love it, when done correctly. Does anyone else share this enthusiasm? What are your favorite films/albums/paintings/books/whatever that build on a sense of paranoia?
Deus Ex would have to be near the top of my list.
She Wants Revenge and Bauhaus make wonderfully paranoid music.
The Thing (1982) is constructed around a pervasive, suspicious dread.
Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is rather prototypical of this aesthetic (which seems to be an exclusively 20th-and-later century phenomenon.)
Deus Ex would have to be near the top of my list.
She Wants Revenge and Bauhaus make wonderfully paranoid music.
The Thing (1982) is constructed around a pervasive, suspicious dread.
Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is rather prototypical of this aesthetic (which seems to be an exclusively 20th-and-later century phenomenon.)
Also Dirk Bogarde in his later films, playing the ultimate gentleman pervert, with his neurotic elegance, and polarized morality. The seminal The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is another exemplar. Otto Dix's Portrait of Journalist Sylvia von Harden: 
Actually there was a certain history in art that practiced this aesthetic such as El Greco, Goya, and many of the Spanish painters. The French Symbolists, such as Odilon Redon: 
Photography as well: 
