The Manchurian Candidate

by Greil Marcus

Overview

As Griel Marcus reconstructs the drama, "The Manchurian Candidate" is a movie in which the director and actors were suddenly capable of anything, beyond any expectations. He shows how the film has burrowed into American culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780851709314
Publisher:	BFI Publishing
Publication date:	09/26/2002
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	79
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 7.48(h) x 0.01(d)

About the Author

Greil Marcus is the author of Mystery Train (1975), Lipstick Traces (1989), The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (1997/2001) and Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in the Land of No Alternatives (2000). In 2001 he taught an American Studies seminar on 'Prophecy and the American Voice' at Princeton and the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Foreword to the 2020 Edition 8

1 A Little Solitaire 18

2 In 2001 20

3 In 1959 22

4 In 1954 25

5 In 1962 41

6 The Pleasure of its Violence 54

7 In 2000 73

8 Remembering the Future 85

Credits 91

Sources 93

Editorial Reviews

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

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