Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 234 p)
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ill
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22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816641250
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9780816641246
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0816641242
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9780816641253
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and index
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816641246
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe What Have They Built You to Do? : The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America
Language:
English
