A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film Book

Acknowledgments

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

Part I. Thrills

1. Murdered Souls, Conspiratorial Cabals: Frankenheimer's Paranoia Films, by David Sterritt

2. The Manchurian Candidate: Compromised Agency and Uncertain Causality, by Charles Ramirez Berg

3. Stealth, Sexuality, and Cult Status in The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds, by Rebecca Bell-Metereau

4. The Train: John Frankenheimer's "Rape of Europa", by Matthew H. Bernstein

5. Action and Abstraction in Ronin, by Stephen Prince

Part II. Politics

6. Late Frankenheimer/Political Frankenheimer, by Douglas McFarland

7. John Frankenheimer's "War on Terror", by Corey K. Creekmur

8. The Burning Season: Environmentalism versus Progress? by Robin L. Murray

9. Pictures and Prizes: Le Grand Prix de Rome and Grand Prix, by Victoria Duckett

Part III. Families

10. Crashing In: Birdman of Alcatraz, by Tom Conley

11. Walking the Line with the Fille Fatale, by Linda Ruth Williams

12. Live TV, Filmed Theater, and the New Hollywood: John Frankenheimer's The Iceman Cometh, by James Morrison

13. Ashes, Ashes: Structuring Emptiness in All Fall Down, by Murray Pomerance

Part IV. Secrets

14. An American in Paris: John Frankenheimer's Impossible Object, by Jerry Mosher

15. Shot from the Sky: The Gypsy Moths and the End of Something, by Dennis Bingham

16. Frankenheimer and the Science Fiction/Horror Film, by Christine Cornea

17. The Fixer: A Jew Who Could Be Any Man, Any Time, Anywhere, by R. Barton Palmer

18. Jonah, by Bill Krohn

John Frankenheimer's Directorial Career: A Chronology

Works Cited and Consulted

Contributors

Index