A little solitaire : John Frankenheimer and American film / edited by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer.

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TextPublication details: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 312 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780813550985
081355098X
0813550599
9780813550596
1283864622
9781283864626

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

791.4302/33092 22

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PN1998.3.F7327 L58 2011

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Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; Thrills; Murdered Souls, Conspiratorial Cabals; The Manchurian Candidate; Stealth, Sexuality, and Cult Statusin The Manchurian Candidateand Seconds?; The Train; Action and Abstraction in Ronin; Politics; Late Frankenheimer/Political Frankenheimer; John Frankenheimer's"War on Terror"; The Burning Season; Pictures and Prizes; Families; Crashing In; Walking the Linewith the Fille Fatale; Live TV, Filmed Theater, and the New Hollywood; Ashes, Ashes; Secrets; An American in Paris; Shot from the Sky; Frankenheimer and theScience Fiction/Horror Film; The Fixer.

Summary: Little Solitaire offers the only multidisciplinary critical account of Frankenheimer's oeuvre. Especially emphasized is his deep and passionate engagement with national politics and the irrepressible need of human beings to assert their rights and individuality in the face of organizations that would reduce them to silence and anonymity.

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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Little Solitaire offers the only multidisciplinary critical account of Frankenheimer's oeuvre. Especially emphasized is his deep and passionate engagement with national politics and the irrepressible need of human beings to assert their rights and individuality in the face of organizations that would reduce them to silence and anonymity.

English.

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