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What have they built you to do? : the Manchurian candidate and Cold War America / Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzalez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cold War.
- Manchurian candidate (Motion picture : 1962).
- Condon, Richard. Manchurian candidate.
- Condon, Richard.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In What Have They Built You to Do?-a key line of dialogue from the original film-Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar González undertake an ambitious reexamination of The Manchurian Candidate. Through their multifaceted analysis of the film in all its incarnations, Jacobson and González raise provocative questions about power and anxiety in American politics and society from the Cold War to today.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 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; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9465-6
- OCLC:
- 476096166
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