HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dry Cleaning, The Official Story, Lee Harvey Oswald
Document Summary
Translated into 19 languages and the basis of two major motion pictures, richard. Condon"s novel the manchurian candidate (1959) describes an american gi captured by the chinese during the korean war. Raymond shaw, the gi, returns to the states from the korean peninsula with his brains. Not merely washed but dry cleaned. : strange tone darkly comedic, grim, deeply satirical. Though he doesn"t realize it, raymond is the shooter in a communist conspiracy organized in china and the soviet union and led in the united states by his mother. Eleanor shaw to catapult his stepfather, a u. s. Senator, into the oval office: stepfather is more or less based on joseph mccarthy. Look at where the camera is putting you, as if you"re a character you can"t really account for. You don"t know exactly whose point of view it is expressing. Eleanor shaw plans to stage a media event. That plan involves rallying a nation of television viewers into hysteria.
