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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Britton, Wesley A. (Wesley Alan). Spy television. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004 (DLC) 2003053634 (OCoLC)52418294 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wesley A Britton |
ISBN: | 0313052123 9780313052125 0275981630 9780275981631 128240833X 9781282408333 9786612408335 6612408332 |
OCLC Number: | 57426345 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) : illustrations. |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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? |
Series Title: | Praeger television collection. |
Responsibility: | Wesley Britton. |
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"Britton has written the Baedeker of spy television films and series, an encyclopedic history of this popular television genre....Public libraries; comprehensive academic collections supporting coursework in the history of television." - Choice "Britton has produced a comprehensive guide to the many espionage-oriented television series that have aired in the United States from the 1960s to the present.... Offers a fascinating window into an understudied genre. The first entry in a new series on television, this work is recommended for academic libraries that support television and popular culture programs and public libraries." - Library Journal "[A] powerful contribution not only to Praeger's television collection, but to television analysis as a whole....^BSpy Television^R considers the history of spy shows on the screen, why they succeeded or failed, and how fact and fiction have been molded by them." - Internet Bookwatch/The Midwest Book Review "Spotlight on The Arts Top 10 Performing Arts Book" - Booklist "Here, for all television addicts, is a much-needed, long-overdue, in-depth exploration of one of the medium's more enduring genres: spy TV....All of the classic series are discussed in considerable detail, but what makes the book such a resounding success for fans of the genre is the coverage of the forgotten show or the curious fact, stuff other books miss but devotees love....Britton's broad knowledge and his commitment to packing as much detail as possible into his book, that makes Spy Television an indispensable addition to any television buff's reference shelf. If you love spy TV, this book is, well...thrilling." - Booklist, Starred Review Read more...


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- Spy television programs -- United States.
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- PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Reference.
- Spy television programs.
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