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Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence Wesley K. Wark

Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence By Wesley K. Wark

Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence by Wesley K. Wark

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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.

Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence Summary

Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence by Wesley K. Wark

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.

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 OHalpin; 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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NPB9780714634111
9780714634111
0714634115
Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence by Wesley K. Wark
Wesley K. Wark
Studies in Intelligence
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1991-03-31
236
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