Spyscreen Espionage on Film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s [Hardcover]

This is a genre study of English-language spy fiction film and television between the 1930s and 1960s. Taking as his focus many well-known films and television series, such asJames Bond,Gilda,The Man From U.N.C.L.E., andThe Avengers, Toby Miller uses a wide range of critical approaches, including textual interpretation, audience studies, and cultural history, to offer new insights into this popular genre.

Preface
Introduction
1. Spy Histories
2. Thirty-Nine Steps to 'the borders of the possible', taken by Alfred Hitchcock, amateur observer
3. Life in the Forties - The good neighbour programme,Gilda,The Third Man, and global commodities (with George Y?dice)
4. Class and Governance:Danger Man/The Prisoner, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Spy who Came in from the Cold,andThe Ipcress File
5. Cultural Imperialism and James Bond
6.The Avengers, Honey West,andModesty Blaise- Women Making Trouble
Conclusion: A Day That Will Live In...?
References

Toby Miller is Professor of Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is a well-known Film Theory and Cultural Studies critic, whose publications includeA Companion to Film Theory(Basil Blackwell, 1999 - with Robert Stam),Film and Theory:An Anthology(Basil Blackwell, 2000 - with Robert Stam), andA Companion to Cultural Studies(Basil Blackwell, 2001). He is Editor of the journalTelevision and New Media.