Toby Miller

Spyscreen

Espionage on Film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a genre study of English-language spy fiction film and television between the 1930s and 1960s. Taking as his focus many well-known films and television series, such as James Bond, Gilda, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and The Avengers, Toby Miller uses a wide range of critical approaches, including textual interpretation, audience studies, and cultural history, to offer new insights into this popular genre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780198159520
• ISBN-10: 0198159528
• Artikelnr.: 23438666

Autorenporträt

Toby Miller is Professor of Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is a well-known Film Theory and Cultural Studies critic, whose publications include A Companion to Film Theory (Basil Blackwell, 1999 - with Robert Stam), Film and Theory: An Anthology (Basil Blackwell, 2000 - with Robert Stam), and A Companion to Cultural Studies (Basil Blackwell, 2001). He is Editor of the journal Television and New Media.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* 1: Spy Histories
* 2: Thirty-Nine Steps to 'the borders of the possible', taken by
Alfred Hitchcock, amateur observer
* 3: Life in the Forties - The good neighbour programme, Gilda, The
Third Man, and global commodities (with George Yúdice)
* 4: Class and Governance: Danger Man/The Prisoner, The Man from
U.N.C.L.E., The Spy who Came in from the Cold, and The Ipcress File
* 5: Cultural Imperialism and James Bond
* 6: The Avengers, Honey West, and Modesty Blaise - Women Making
Trouble
* Conclusion: A Day That Will Live In...?
* References