Dramatizing the dream logic of Cold War militarism and domestic anti-communism, Frankenheimer captures the convergence of state power, media, warfare, and science that characterized his era. Directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, the film returns to the Korean war to imagine a global brainwashing conspiracy advanced by a sleeper agent who has been “conditioned” while in captivity in Manchuria. Join Verso Books and Franny Nudelman, author of Fighting Sleep: The War for the Mind and the US Military, for a screening of The Manchurian Candidate.
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