Research Catalog

Title

Spy television / Wesley Britton.

Author

Britton, Wesley A. (Wesley Alan)

Publication

• Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
• ©2004

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Details

Description

viii, 280 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

A writer and college English teacher traces the evolution of television spy series over the past half-century, from the early 1960s anti-communist propaganda spy shows to today's high-tech global-international espionage programs.

Series Statement

The Praeger television collection

Uniform Title

Praeger television collection

Subjects

• Émissions d'espionnage télévisées
• Television programs
• United States
• Great Britain
• Spy television programs > Great Britain
• Spy television programs > United States

Genre/Form

• Spy television programs – United States.
• Spy television programs – Great Britain.
• Television programs.
• Television programs
• Spy television programs
• Spy television programs.
• Émissions d'espionnage télévisées.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-269) and index.

Contents

Defining a genre -- The roots of a family tree : 1900 to 1961 -- 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 racial 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 -- James Bond on the prairie : from The wild wild West to the Secret adventures of Jules Verne -- From 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 to 1980 -- Reagan, le Carré, 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 twenty-first-century spies -- Conclusion : the past, present, and future of TV espionage : why spies?

ISBN

• 0275981630
• 9780275981631

LCCN

2003053634

OCLC

• ocm52418294
• 52418294
• SCSB-14706006

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library