American Rivals of James Bond

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de Graham Andrews

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Action

Mots Clés

spy films, american cinema

Année d'édition

2023

Editeur

McFarland & Co

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Paperback • 264 pages
7 x 10 inches (18 x 25.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4766-7368-4

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Description de l'ouvrage:
This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies that rivaled (and were often influenced by) Ian Fleming’s James Bond. James Fenimore Cooper’s Harvey Birch, based on a real-life counterpart, appeared in his novel The Spy in 1821. While Harvey Birch’s British rivals dominated spy fiction from the late 1800s until the mid–1930s, American spy fiction came of age shortly thereafter. The spy boom in novels and films during the 1960s, spearheaded by Bond, heavily influenced the espionage genre in the United States for years to come, including series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Matt Helm. The author demonstrates that, while American authors currently dominate the international spy fiction market, James Bond has cast a very long shadow, for a very long time.

À propos de l'auteur :
Graham Andrews lives in Brussels, Belgium.

Revue de Presse:
• "[A]ssiduously researched and enthusiastically written"—Crime Time

• "[A] thorough history of spies and secret agents of all kinds in pop culture…[it’s] readable, it’s quite entertaining at times, it’s most certainly informative, and clearly well-researched"—Forces of Geek.

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