Antje Dallmann
(Editor)

Antje Dallmann teaches American literary and culture studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her fields of interest include the visual culture of the city, urban literature, postmodernity and cultural representation, and film studies. She has recently completed her dissertation on "ConspiraCity New York: Visibility, Invisibility, and Urban Paranoia as Motifs in American Urban Literature."

Manchurian Candidates: Conspiracy Fiction, Visual Representation, and Masculinity in Crisis. Three Variations on a Popular Theme

In a comparative analysis of John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate from 1962 and Jonathan Demme's remake from 2004, Antje Dallmann points out how the latter, while remaining very close to the original both in terms of plot and narrative structure, departs from it significantly in a number of ways. In contradistinction to many theories on conspiracy fiction, Demme's film does offer a - historically grounded - social critique which becomes strikingly apparent when compared to the earlier film, Dallmann argues.