02673nam 2200577 a 450 991080892670332120200520144314.00-8166-9465-6(CKB)1000000000474726(EBL)310761(OCoLC)476096166(SSID)ssj0000270616(PQKBManifestationID)11228127(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270616(PQKBWorkID)10262260(PQKB)11392166(MiAaPQ)EBC310761(OCoLC)156994023(MdBmJHUP)muse40065(Au-PeEL)EBL310761(CaPaEBR)ebr10173890(CaONFJC)MIL523268(EXLCZ)99100000000047472620060626d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhat have they built you to do? the Manchurian candidate and Cold War America /Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzalez1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20061 online resource (252 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4125-0 0-8166-4124-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and index.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; IndexIn 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.Cold WarCold War.791.43/72Jacobson Matthew Frye1958-1134963Gonzalez Gaspar1968-1710738MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808926703321What have they built you to do4101584UNINA