A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film

Contents

vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Don’t You Pass the Time by Playing a Little Solitaire? 1 R. BARTON PALMER AND MURRAY POMERANCE Thrills Murdered Souls, Conspiratorial Cabals: Frankenheimer’s Paranoia Films 13 DAVID STERRITT The Manchurian Candidate: Compromised Agency and Uncertain Causality 29 CHARLES RAMÍREZ BERG Stealth, Sexuality, and Cult Status in The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds 48 REBECCA BELL-METEREAU The Train: John Frankenheimer’s “Rape of Europa” 62 MATTHEW H. BERNSTEIN Action and Abstraction in Ronin 78 STEPHEN PRINCE Politics Late Frankenheimer/Political Frankenheimer 91 DOUGLAS MCFARLAND John Frankenheimer’s “War on Terror” 103 COREY K. CREEKMUR viii CONTENTS The Burning Season: Environmentalism versus Progress? 117 ROBIN L. MURRAY Pictures and Prizes: Le Grand Prix de Rome and Grand Prix 129 VICTORIA DUCKETT Families Crashing In: Birdman of Alcatraz 145 TOM CONLEY Walking the Line with the Fille Fatale 157 LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS Live TV, Filmed Theater, and the New Hollywood: John Frankenheimer’s The Iceman Cometh 170 JAMES MORRISON Ashes, Ashes: Structuring Emptiness in All Fall Down 184 MURRAY POMERANCE Secrets An American in Paris: John Frankenheimer’s Impossible Object 199 JERRY MOSHER Shot from the Sky: The Gypsy Moths and the End of Something 214 DENNIS BINGHAM Frankenheimer and the Science Fiction/Horror Film 229 CHRISTINE CORNEA The Fixer: A Jew Who Could Be Any Man, Any Time, Anywhere 244 R. BARTON PALMER Jonah 262 BILL KROHN John Frankenheimer’s Directorial Career: A Chronology 279 Works Cited and Consulted 287 Contributors 299 Index 303 ...