Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Why Don’t You Pass the Time by Playing a Little Solitaire? 1
5. Thrills
6. Murdered Souls, Conspiratorial Cabals: Frankenheimer’s Paranoia Films 13
7. The Manchurian Candidate: Compromised Agency and Uncertain Causality 29
8. Stealth, Sexuality, and Cult Status in The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds 48
9. The Train: John Frankenheimer’s “Rape of Europa” 62
10. Action and Abstraction in Ronin 78
11. Politics
12. Late Frankenheimer/ Political Frankenheimer 91
13. John Frankenheimer’s “War on Terror” 103
14. The Burning Season: Environmentalism versus Progress? 117
15. Pictures and Prizes: Le Grand Prix de Rome and Grand Prix 129
16. Families
17. Crashing In: Birdman of Alcatraz 145
18. Walking the Line with the Fille Fatale 157
19. Live TV, Filmed Theater, and the New Hollywood: John Frankenheimer’s The Iceman Cometh 170
20. Ashes, Ashes: Structuring Emptiness in All Fall Down 184
21. Secrets
22. An American in Paris: John Frankenheimer’s Impossible Object 199
23. Shot from the Sky: The Gypsy Moths and the End of Something 214
24. Frankenheimer and the Science Fiction/Horror Film 229
25. The Fixer: A Jew Who Could Be Any Man, Any Time, Anywhere 244
26. Jonah 262
27. John Frankenheimer’s Directorial Career: A Chronology 279
28. Works Cited and Consulted 287
29. Contributors 299
30. Index 303