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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? |
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