...Joy McEntee Charles S. Young and Susan L. Carruthers describe John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (US, 1962) as a prisoner-of-war film. This article argues that, as such, it stages the responses of its male protagonists to trauma. Focusing on weeping, the article examines...

... in The Manchurian Candidate (dir. John Frankenheimer, US, 1962) Of Red Queens and Garden Clubs: The Manchurian Candidate, Cold War Paranoia, and the Historicity of the Homosexual Kevin Ohi In Schreber’s system, the two principal elements of his delusion (his transformation into a woman and his...

... (Gaslight), Lansbury used her talent, along with the insight of queer directors like Albert Lewin and Cukor, to perform fearlessly as a diva — even if she did not consider her- self one in “real life.” In this, Lansbury reached her cinematic peak in The Manchurian Candidate (dir. John Frankenheimer...

... Yoshiko,24 or Okada Mariko’s collaboration with her partner Yoshida Kiju¯ starting with Akitsu onsen (An Affair in Akitsu, Japan, 1962).25 For examples of New Women threatening the status quo, Irie’s contemporaries Okada Yoshiko and Shiga Akiko would be better candidates.26 In her...

...) is lying on a bunk reading The Manchurian Candidate when a fellow soldier, Mulder’s father, asks him, “Why don’t you just go see the movie?” Without looking up from his novel, the young, crewcut soldier replies, “I’d rather read the worst novel ever written than sit through the best movie ever...