Details
Statement of responsibility: Toby Miller
ISBN: 0198159528, 9780198159520
Note:
Hbk.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-211) and index
Physical Description:
vi, 219 p., [8] p. of plates ill. 22cm
Subject:
Spy films United States History and criticism; Spy television programs Great Britain History and criticism; Spy television programs United States History and criticism; Spy films Great Britain History and criticism
Alternative Title:
Espionage on film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s
Contents
- Introduction: Querying method : a choice between the sensual obsession of film theory and trainspotting the Avengers?
- Spy histories
- 39/Thirty-nine steps to 'the borders of the possible' by Alfred Hitchcock, amateur observer
- The Good Neighbor Program and Gilda; global commodities and The third man (with George Yúdice)
- 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
- Cultural imperialism and James Bond's penis
- Women making trouble : The avengers, Honey West and Modesty Blaise
- Conclusion