Wesley Britton

Spy Television (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

For half a century, television spies have been trained professionals, reluctant heroes, housewives, businessmen, criminals, and comedians. They have by turns been glamorous, campy, reflective, sexy, and aloof. This is the first book-length treatment of one of TV's oldest and most fascinating genres. Britton's comprehensive guide provides readers, from casual viewers to die-hard fans, with behind-the-scenes stories to this notable segment of television entertainment. From the early 1960s, in which television spies were used essentially as anti-Communist propaganda, through the subsequent years that both built upon and parodied this model, and finally to today's gadget-laden world of murky motives and complex global politics, spy television has served as much more than mere escapism. From the beginning, television spies opened doors for new kinds of heroes. Women quickly took center stage alongside men, and minority leads in spy programs paved the way for other kinds of roles on the small screen. For half a century, television spies have been trained professionals, reluctant heroes, housewives, businessmen, criminals, and comedians. They have by turns been glamorous, campy, reflective, sexy, and aloof. This is the first book-length treatment of one of TV's oldest and most fascinating genres.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313052125
• Artikelnr.: 68184386

Autorenporträt

Wesley Britton is the author of Spy Television (Praeger 2004), the first book-length study of espionage television series, and Beyond Bond (Praeger 2005), a similarly groundbreaking treatment of spies in fiction and film. He is also the author of many articles for journals, encyclopedias, and periodicals, as well as of book reviews and poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Defining a Genre The Roots of a Family Tree Bond
Beatles
and Camp: The Men from U.N.C.L.E More British than Bond: John Steed
The Avengers
and Feminist Role-Playing Cold War Sports and Games: I Spy and Radical Politics The Cold War and Existential Fables: Danger Man
Secret Agent
and The Prisoner The Page and the Screen: The Saint and Robin Hood Spies Interchangeable Parts: Missions: Impossible Bond on the Prarie: From The Wild Wild West to the Secret Adventures of Jules Verne Tongues in Cheek to Tongues Sticking Out: Get Smart and the Spoofing of a Genre Also Rans and New Branches: Network Secret Agents from 1963-1980 Reagan
Le Carre
Clancy
Cynicism
and Cable: Down to Earth in the 1980s and 1990s The Return of Fantasy and the Dark Nights of Spies: The X-Files
La Femme Nikita
and the New Millennium Active and Inactive FILES: Alias
24
The Agency and 21st Century Spies Conclusion The Past
Present
and Future of TV Espionage: Why Spies? Chapter Notes References