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SUMMARY:Conspiracies and Conspiracy Film Season: The Manchurian Candidate 
 (1962) - Peter Knight\, Author
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CONTACT:Prof. David Trotter
DESCRIPTION:*CRASSH Conspiracies and Conspiracy Film Season*\n\nThis celeb
 rated Cold War tale of brainwashing\, assassination\, demagoguery and poli
 tical conspiracy was based on the 1959 novel by Richard Condon\, a long-ti
 me critic of the abuse of power in American politics.  The original film v
 ersion came out in October 1962\, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisi
 s and just a year before the assassination of JFK\, which made many of its
  themes seem frighteningly real.  The Manchurian Candidate can be viewed b
 oth as a paranoid attack on Communism and a satirical warning about the da
 ngers of hysterical anti-Communism.  The film will be introduced by Peter 
 Knight\, author of Conspiracy Culture: American Paranoia from the Kennedy 
 Assassination to the X-Files.
LOCATION:Arts Picture House Cinema\, 38-39 St. Andrews Street
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