Beyond Bond : spies in fiction and film
At a time when the methods and purposes of intelligence agencies are under a great deal of scrutiny, author Wesley Britton offers an unprecedented look at their fictional counterparts. In Beyond Bond: Spies in Film and Fiction, Britton traces the history of espionage in literature, film, and other media, demonstrating how the spy stories of the 1840s began cementing our popular conceptions of what spies do and how they do it. Considering sources from Graham Greene to Ian Fleming, Alfred Hitchcock to Tom Clancy, Beyond Bond looks at the tales that have intrigued readers and viewers over the dec
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages) : illustrations
9780313043376, 9780275985561, 031304337X, 0275985563
449785614
The 39 steps
Maugham, Ambler, and Greene
On the air, on the screen, and in word-balloons
McCarthy, television, and film noir
"Cloak and swagger"
From George Smiley to Bernard Sampson
The Cold War inside out
From the "evil empire" to "the great Satan"
Big screen pyrotechnics and eyes in the sky
More fact than fiction
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