Man in a Suitcase: ITC-Land Volume 1 (Hardcover)

Lew Grade's pioneering ITC company created a production line of quirky new drama series for British Independent Television in the 1960s, fulfilling a vision of providing entertaining, colour film series for a global market. In the first of a proposed series of critical guides, Avengers expert Rodney Marshall and television historian Matthew Lee explore ITC's Man in a Suitcase. Their book offers new, inventive readings of all thirty episodes. Man in a Suitcase is a product of its mid-1960s context, exploring themes such as Cold War espionage and Swinging Sixties playgirls, yet most of the stories also have a timeless feel to them: political corruption, blackmail, murder, missing persons or money, art theft. Despite the private detective/bounty hunter formula, there are welcome elements of playfulness, quirkiness, surrealism and a healthy abundance of social and political critique. Man in a Suitcase cannot be simplistically labelled as 'light entertainment' given the dark subject matter and its treatment.

General

Imprint:	Lulu.Com
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2015
Authors:	Rodney Marshall • Matthew Lee
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	359
ISBN-13:	978-1-326-32517-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > General
LSN:	1-326-32517-5
Barcode:	9781326325176

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