A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American FilmMurray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer 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
Compromised Agency | 29 |
Stealth Sexuality and Cult Status | 48 |
John Frankenheimers Rape of Europa | 62 |
Action and Abstraction in Ronin | 78 |
Late FrankenheimerPolitical Frankenheimer | 91 |
John Frankenheimers War on Terror | 103 |
Environmentalism versus Progress? | 117 |
Le Grand Prix de Rome and Grand Prix | 129 |
Structuring Emptiness in All Fall Down | 184 |
John Frankenheimers | 199 |
The Gypsy Moths and | 214 |
Frankenheimer and the Science FictionHorror Film | 229 |
A Jew Who Could Be Any Man | 244 |
Jonah | 262 |
A Chronology | 279 |
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