A Little Solitaire:
John Frankenheimer and American Film

edited by
Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer

ISBN: 978-0-8135-5060-2

Contents

 

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

THRILLS
David STERRITT
: Murdered Souls, Conspiratorial Cabals: Frankenheimer's Paranoia Films
Charles RAMÍREZ BERG: The Manchurian Candidate: Compromised Agency and Uncertain Causality
Rebecca BELL-METEREAU: Stealth, Sexuality, and Cult Status in The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds
Matthew H. BERNSTEIN: The Train: John Frankenheimer's "Rape of Europa"
Stephen PRINCE: Action and Abstraction in Ronin

POLITICS
Douglas McFARLAND
: Late Frankenheimer/Political Frankenheimer
Corey K. CREEKMUR
: John Frankenheimer's "War on Terror"
Robin L. MURRAY
: The Burning Season: Environmentalism versus Progress?
Victoria DUCKETT
: Pictures and Prizes: Le Grand Prix de Rome and Grand Prix

FAMILIES
Tom CONLEY: Crashing In: Birdman of Alcatraz
Linda Ruth WILLIAMS
: Walking the Line with the Fille Fatale
James MORRISON
: Live TV, Filmed Theater, and the New Hollywood: John Frankenheimer's The Iceman Cometh
Murray POMERANCE
: Ashes, Ashes: Structuring Emptiness in All Fall Down

SECRETS

Jerry MOSHER
: An American in Paris: John Frankenheimer's Impossible Object
Dennis BINGHAM
: Shot from the Sky: The Gypsy Moths and the End of Something
Christine CORNEA
: Frankenheimer and the Science Fiction/Horror Film
R. Barton PALMER
: The Fixer: A Jew Who Could Be Any Man, Any Time, Anywhere
Bill KROHN
: Jonah

John Frankenheimer's Directorial Career: A Chronology
Works Cited and Consulted
Contributors
Index