Watch/Look up synopsis: 

The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, US, 1962)

Read: 

Kevin Ohi, “Of Red Queens and Garden Clubs: ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Cold War Paranoia, and
the Historicity of the Homosexual,” Camera Obscura (2005): PAGEs (149-183). 

• Examine the relationship between US national identity and the Cold War
• Identify how binaries of infiltration/surveillance, patriotism/paranoia, and masculinity/femininity
shape US political fears
• Question if these are still present in current US culture 

NEed it tonight by 11:30!