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Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900 - The Changing Enemy (Paperback)
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Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900 - The Changing Enemy (Paperback)
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Espionage in British Fiction and Film Since 1900 traces the history
and development of the British spy novel from its emergence in the
early twentieth century, through its growth as a popular genre
during the Cold War, to its resurgence in the early twenty-first
century. Using an innovative structure, the chapters focus on
specific categories of fictional spying (such as the accidental spy
or the professional) and identify each type with a vital period in
the evolution of the spy novel and film. A central section of the
book considers how, with the creation of James Bond by Ian Fleming
in the 1950s, the professional spy was launched on a new career of
global popularity, enhanced by the Bond film franchise. In the
realm of fiction, a glance at the fiction bestseller list will
reveal the continuing appeal of novelists such as John le Carre,
Frederick Forsyth, Charles Cumming, Stella Rimington, Daniel Silva,
Alec Berenson, Christopher Reich-to name but a few-and illustrates
the continued fascination with the spy novel into the twenty-first
century, decades after the end of the Cold War. There is also a
burgeoning critical interest in spy fiction, with a number of new
studies appearing in recent years. A genre that many believed would
falter and disappear after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the
collapse of the Soviet empire has shown, if anything, increased
signs of vitality. While exploring the origins of the British spy,
tracing it through cultural and historical events, Espionage in
British Fiction and Film Since 1900 also keeps in focus the
essential role of the "changing enemy"-the chief adversary of and
threat to Britain and its allies-in the evolution of spy fiction
and cinema. The book concludes by analyzing examples of the
enduring vitality of the British spy novel and film in the decades
since the end of the Cold War.
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