During the Cold War, in 1962 a book called, The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon, was adapted as a film directed by John Frankenheimer which starred Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey. In the film the Manchurian Candidate, film techniques of camerawork such as a variety of shots, jump cuts, and high/low angles were utilized to argue that the representations of gender and sexuality reveal an underlying subtext about the “Cold War”. During the Cold War, the main fear or threat most Americans held was the “red invasion” or communist infiltration, however this film shows that there is fear from within, and the fear is that women are rising to power and taking over men’s places. Women sought to fight for public space and the right to work as equals with men since they fulfilled the roles of men during WWII, but have been pushed back by the start of the 1950s. Throughout the film it is shown through montage and other film techniques that women are gaining agency in America and using it to force and subject men to their will. In two sequences or scenes we see from Marco and Melvin’s dreams that a montage is happening in both of them. A montage is “the process or technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of films to form a continuous whole; a sequence or picture resulting from such a process.” This is used to make a “continuous whole” to make a juxtaposition of the unlike the same as a…show more content… This strikes fear into the very heart of most Americans at the time of Cold War especially since this was released around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. However, as we watch the film, certain camerawork were employed to embed a different fear which is the fear of women being in control and in power. Not only that, but using that control and power to put themselves in the public space to
