What Have They Built You to Do: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
What Have They Built You to Do: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America
By (Author) Matthew Frye Jacobson
By (author) Gaspar Gonzalez
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st December 2006
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Films, cinema
History of the Americas
791.43
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 137mm, Height 216mm, Spine 15mm
Description
Reassesses the landmark Cold War film, from Kennedy to Reagan to Halliburton. 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.
