Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence

Herausgeber: Wark, Wesley K

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Produktbeschreibung

This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an attempt to explore the history of spy fiction and spy films and investigate the significance of the ideas they contain. The volume offers new insights into the development and symbolism of British spy fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780714634111
• ISBN-10: 0714634115
• Artikelnr.: 21981229

Autorenporträt

Wesley K. Wark

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Wesley K. Wark; Chapter 1 Secret Negotiations
Christine Bold; Chapter 2 The Politics of Adventure in the Early British Spy Novel
David Trotter; Chapter 3 Decoding German Spies
Nicholas Hiley; Chapter 4 English Spy Thrillers in the Age of Appeasement
Eric Homberger; Chapter 5 Ireland in Spy Fiction
Keith Jeffery
Eunan O'Halpin; Chapter 6 Our Man in Havana
Their Man in Madrid
Denis Smyth; Chapter 7 The Development of the Espionage Film
Alan R. Booth; Chapter 8 Ethics and Spy Fiction
J.J. Macintosh; Chapter 9 Spy Fiction and Terrorism
Philip Jenkins; Chapter 10 Why I Write Spy Fiction
John Starnes; Chapter 11 Critical Afterthoughts and Alternative Historico-Literary Theories
D. Cameron Watt;