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"It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood," film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into an assassin. Sophisticated to be sure, it's also a headlong fall through the looking-glass of American politics and the most deeply prophetic film of the second half of the American century. As Greil Marcus reconstructs the drama, The Manchurian Candidate is a movie in which the director and actors, including Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury in an Academy Award-nominated performance, were suddenly capable of anything, beyond any expectations. This edition includes a new foreword highlighting the movie's terrifying contemporary relevance in the age of Trump and Russian interference in the US Presidential election.

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Marcus is a compelling writer, and he hits the nail on the head when he talks of “the Iron Maiden of repression,” which sums up Laurence Harvey's acting in The Manchurian Candidate. * The Best American Poetry blog *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 1. A little solitaire 2. In 2001 3. In 1959 4. In 1954 5. In 1962 6. The pleasure of its violence 7. In 2000 8. Remembering the future Credits Sources

The Manchurian Candidate

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 28 May 2020
      ISBN-13 9781838719647
      978-1838719647
      ISBN-10 1838719644
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      Film history, theory or criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood," film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into an assassin. Sophisticated to be sure, it's also a headlong fall through the looking-glass of American politics and the most deeply prophetic film of the second half of the American century. As Greil Marcus reconstructs the drama, The Manchurian Candidate is a movie in which the director and actors, including Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury in an Academy Award-nominated performance, were suddenly capable of anything, beyond any expectations. This edition includes a new foreword highlighting the movie's terrifying contemporary relevance in the age of Trump and Russian interference in the US Presidential election.

      Trade Review
      Marcus is a compelling writer, and he hits the nail on the head when he talks of “the Iron Maiden of repression,” which sums up Laurence Harvey's acting in The Manchurian Candidate. * The Best American Poetry blog *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements 1. A little solitaire 2. In 2001 3. In 1959 4. In 1954 5. In 1962 6. The pleasure of its violence 7. In 2000 8. Remembering the future Credits Sources

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