What have they built you to do? : the Manchurian candidate and Cold War America / / Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzalez

• Autore: Jacobson Matthew Frye <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/72
• Soggetto topico: Cold War
• Altri autori: GonzalezGaspar <1968->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: What have they built you to do
• ISBN: 0-8166-9465-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808926703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II