A Little Solitaire : John Frankenheimer and American Film

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A Little Solitaire : John Frankenheimer and American Film

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 324 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780813550602
  • DDC分類 791.430233092

Full Description

Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces--The Manchurian Candidate. Seven Days in May. Seconds. Then consider some lesser known, yet equally compelling cinematic achievements--The Fixer. The Gypsy Moths. Path to War. These triumphs are the work of the best known and most highly regarded Hollywood director to emerge from live TV drama in the 1950s--five-time Emmy-award-winner John Frankenheimer.

Although Frankenheimer was a pioneer in the genre of political thrillers who embraced the antimodernist critique of contemporary society, some of his later films did not receive the attention they deserved. Many claimed that at a midpoint in his career he had lost his touch. World-renowned film scholars put this myth to rest in A Little Solitaire, which 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.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Don't You Pass the Time by Playing a Little Solitaire? by R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance

Part I. Thrills

1. Murdered Souls, Conspiratorial Cabals: Frankenheimer's Paranoia Films, by David Sterritt

2. The Manchurian Candidate: Compromised Agency and Uncertain Causality, by Charles Ramirez Berg

3. Stealth, Sexuality, and Cult Status in The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds, by Rebecca Bell-Metereau

4. The Train: John Frankenheimer's "Rape of Europa", by Matthew H. Bernstein

5. Action and Abstraction in Ronin, by Stephen Prince

Part II. Politics

6. Late Frankenheimer/Political Frankenheimer, by Douglas McFarland

7. John Frankenheimer's "War on Terror", by Corey K. Creekmur

8. The Burning Season: Environmentalism versus Progress? by Robin L. Murray

9. Pictures and Prizes: Le Grand Prix de Rome and Grand Prix, by Victoria Duckett

Part III. Families

10. Crashing In: Birdman of Alcatraz, by Tom Conley

11. Walking the Line with the Fille Fatale, by Linda Ruth Williams

12. Live TV, Filmed Theater, and the New Hollywood: John Frankenheimer's The Iceman Cometh, by James Morrison

13. Ashes, Ashes: Structuring Emptiness in All Fall Down, by Murray Pomerance

Part IV. Secrets

14. An American in Paris: John Frankenheimer's Impossible Object, by Jerry Mosher

15. Shot from the Sky: The Gypsy Moths and the End of Something, by Dennis Bingham

16. Frankenheimer and the Science Fiction/Horror Film, by Christine Cornea

17. The Fixer: A Jew Who Could Be Any Man, Any Time, Anywhere, by R. Barton Palmer

18. Jonah, by Bill Krohn

John Frankenheimer's Directorial Career: A Chronology

Works Cited and Consulted

Contributors

Index