Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Don't You Pass the Time by Playing a Little Solitaire? / Palmer, R. Barton / Pomerance, Murray -- Thrills -- Murdered Souls, Conspiratorial Cabals: Frankenheimer's Paranoia Films / Sterritt, David -- The Manchurian Candidate: Compromised Agency and Uncertain Causality / Berg, Charles RamÃrez -- Stealth, Sexuality, and Cult Status in The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds / Bell-Metereau, Rebecca -- The Train: John Frankenheimer's "Rape of Europa" / Bernstein, Matthew H. -- Action and Abstraction in Ronin / Prince, Stephen -- Politics -- Late Frankenheimer/ Political Frankenheimer / McFarland, Douglas -- John Frankenheimer's "War on Terror" / Creekmur, Corey K. -- The Burning Season: Environmentalism versus Progress? / Murray, Robin L. -- Pictures and Prizes: Le Grand Prix de Rome and Grand Prix / Duckett, Victoria -- Families -- Crashing In: Birdman of Alcatraz / Conley, Tom -- Walking the Line with the Fille Fatale / Williams, Linda Ruth -- Live TV, Filmed Theater, and the New Hollywood: John Frankenheimer's The Iceman Cometh / Morrison, James -- Ashes, Ashes: Structuring Emptiness in All Fall Down / Pomerance, Murray -- Secrets -- An American in Paris: John Frankenheimer's Impossible Object / Mosher, Jerry -- Shot from the Sky: The Gypsy Moths and the End of Something / Bingham, Dennis -- Frankenheimer and the Science Fiction/Horror Film / Cornea, Christine -- The Fixer: A Jew Who Could Be Any Man, |