Spyscreen
Subtitle: espionage on film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s
By: Toby Miller.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Spy films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Spy films -- United States -- History and criticism; Spy television programs -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Spy television programs -- United States -- History and criticism
Other titles: Espionage on film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s
Description: "Spyscreen presents a genre study of English-language spy fiction film and television from the 1930s to the 1960s. Toby Miller guides the reader through a wide range of critical approaches, from textual interpretation, audience studies, and cultural history, through auteurism, imperial history, class, and governmentalism, to genre, cultural imperialism, and gender. Beginning with an overview of the history, production, and analysis of spy fiction, topics discussed include the first canonical espionage movie, The 39 Steps; key film-noir texts such as Gilda and The Third Man; the figure of the spy, including James Bond; and the importance of women to the genre. The result is not just an insightful new study of key texts in this popular genre; it is an important intervention in the methodology and practice of Screen Studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Querying method : a choice between the sensual obsession of film theory and trainspotting the Avengers?; title: Spy histories; title: 39/Thirty-nine steps to 'the borders of the possible' by Alfred Hitchcock, amateur observer; title: The Good Neighbor Program and Gilda; global commodities and The third man (with George Yúdice); title: 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; title: Cultural imperialism and James Bond's penis; title: Women making trouble : The avengers, Honey West and Modesty Blaise; title: Conclusion.