Manchurian Candidate vs Cold War

Question No. 1

The Manchurian Candidate showed a brainwashed U.S. soldier accepting orders from a female enemy agent. Such popular-culture images suggested that any effective containment of communism would require the containment of femininity and an assertion of the traditional gender hierarchy. The Cold War thus provided a powerful impetus for a pronounced cultural emphasis on conventional domesticity as a pillar of American life (Keyishian 23).

Mother of Raymond Shaw as a communist was very influential in his campaign. She is trying to raise him to power so that she can take over, even thought this would never ...