| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations |
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1. Backstory: Frank Sinatra and the Politics of Cold War Cultural Production -- 2. A Culture of Contradiction: Affluence and Anxiety -- 3. Five from the Fifties: Threat, Containment, and the Rise of the Security State in Postwar Film -- 4. Bullwhip and Smear: Reading McCarthy -- 5. Like Fu Manchu: Mapping Manchuria -- 6. The Red Queen: Sexuality, Subversion, and the American Family -- 7. Strangers on a Train: The Perils of Cold War Courtship -- 8. Cold War Redux: From Kennedy to Reagan's America and Beyond |
| Summary |
In What Have They Built You to Do?a key line of dialogue from the original filmMatthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzlez undertake an ambitious reexamination of The Manchurian Candidate. Through their multifaceted analysis of the film in all its incarnations, Jacobson and Gonzlez raise provocative questions about power and anxiety in American politics and society from the Cold War to today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Condon, Richard. Manchurian candidate.
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| SUBJECT |
Manchurian candidate (Motion picture : 1962)
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Manchurian candidate (Condon, Richard) fast |
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Manchurian candidate (Motion picture : 1962) fast |
| Subject |
Cold War.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
González, Gaspar, 1968-
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| ISBN |
9780816694655 |
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0816694656 |
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