Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence / Edition 1

Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence / Edition 1

by Wesley K. Wark
ISBN-10:
113887356X
ISBN-13:
9781138873568
Pub. Date:
04/07/2015
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
113887356X
ISBN-13:
9781138873568
Pub. Date:
04/07/2015
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence / Edition 1

Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence / Edition 1

by Wesley K. Wark
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Overview

This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an attempt to explore the history of spy fiction and spy films and investigate the significance of the ideas they contain. The volume offers new insights into the development and symbolism of British spy fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138873568
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/07/2015
Series: Studies in Intelligence
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction, Wesley K. Wark; Chapter 1 Secret Negotiations, Christine Bold; Chapter 2 The Politics of Adventure in the Early British Spy Novel, David Trotter; Chapter 3 Decoding German Spies, Nicholas Hiley; Chapter 4 English Spy Thrillers in the Age of Appeasement, Eric Homberger; Chapter 5 Ireland in Spy Fiction, Keith Jeffery, Eunan O’Halpin; Chapter 6 Our Man in Havana, Their Man in Madrid, Denis Smyth; Chapter 7 The Development of the Espionage Film, Alan R. Booth; Chapter 8 Ethics and Spy Fiction, J.J. Macintosh; Chapter 9 Spy Fiction and Terrorism, Philip Jenkins; Chapter 10 Why I Write Spy Fiction, John Starnes; Chapter 11 Critical Afterthoughts and Alternative Historico-Literary Theories, D. Cameron Watt;
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