Seconds

by Jez Conolly and Emma Westwood

Book Overview

Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum black comedy, a film found at the intersection of the post-McCarthy mindset, European art cinema, the suburban identity nightmares of The Twilight Zone and the mid-life crises of masculinity aroused by 1960s counterculture. Arguably the bleakest mainstream Hollywood film ever made, it was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800859295
• ISBN13: 9781800859296
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.3"