What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America

Name: What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America
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ISBN: 9780816641253

ISBN-10: 0816641250

ISBN-13: 9780816641253

Edition: 2006

Authors: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Gaspar Gonzalez

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Considered by many to be the best political thriller ever made, The Manchurian Candidate is as entertaining, troubling, and relevant today as it was in 1962. Starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, and directed with probing insight by John Frankenheimer, the film was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece. Largely out of circulation for the next two decades, it acquired a well-deserved cult following until it was rereleased during the last year of the Reagan presidency, when its pointed satire of political and media manipulation seemed more timely than ever. In What Have They Built You to Do?--a key line of dialogue from the original film--Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 11/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction



Backstory: Frank Sinatra and the Politics of Cold War Cultural Production



A Culture of Contradiction: Affluence and Anxiety



Five from the Fifties: Threat, Containment, and the Rise of the Security State in Postwar Film



Bullwhip and Smear: Reading McCarthy



Like Fu Manchu: Mapping Manchuria



The Red Queen: Sexuality, Subversion, and the American Family



Strangers on a Train: The Perils of Cold War Courtship



Cold War Redux: From Kennedy to Reagan's America and Beyond


Postscript


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index