Citizen Spy : Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture.
Title:
Citizen Spy : Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture.
Author:
Kackman, Michael.
ISBN:
9780816692972
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (277 pages)
Series:
Commerce and Mass Culture
Contents:
Contents -- Preface: Doing Television History -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Agent and the Nation -- 1. Documentary Melodrama: Homegrown Spies and the Red Scare -- 2. I Led 3 Lives and the Agent of History -- 3. The Irrelevant Expert and the Incredible Shrinking Spy -- 4. Parody and the Limits of Agency -- 5. I Spy a Colorblind Nation: African Americans and the Citizen-Subject -- 6. Agents or Technocrats: Mission: Impossible and the International Other -- Conclusion: Spies Are Back -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Looking at secret agents on television in the 1950s and 1960s, Michael Kackman explores how Americans see themselves in times of political and cultural crisis. From parodies such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Get Smart to the more complicated situations of I Spy and Mission: Impossible, Kackman situates espionage television within the culture of the civil rights and women's movements and the war in Vietnam.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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