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What have they built you to do? : the Manchurian candidate and Cold War America /

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 qu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-
Otros Autores: González, Gaspar, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.