At a time when the methods and purposes of intelligence agencies
are under a great deal of scrutiny, author Wesley Britton offers an
unprecedented look at their fictional counterparts. In Beyond Bond:
Spies in Film and Fiction, Britton traces the history of espionage
in literature, film, and other media, demonstrating how the spy
stories of the 1840s began cementing our popular conceptions of
what spies do and how they do it. Considering sources from Graham
Greene to Ian Fleming, Alfred Hitchcock to Tom Clancy, Beyond Bond
looks at the tales that have intrigued readers and viewers over the
decades. Included here are the propaganda films of World War II,
the James Bond phenomenon, anti-communist spies of the Cold War
era, and military espionage in the eighties and nineties. No
previous book has considered this subject with such breadth, and
Britton intertwines reality and fantasy in ways that illuminate
both. He reveals how most themes and devices in the genre were
established in the first years of the twentieth century, and also
how they have been used quite differently from decade to decade,
depending on the political concerns of the time. In all, Beyond
Bond offers a timely and penetrating look at an intriguing world of
fiction, one that sometimes, and in ever-fascinating ways, can seem
all too real. At a time when the methods and purposes of
intelligence agencies are under a great deal of scrutiny, author
Wesley Britton offers an unprecedented look at their fictional
counterparts. In Beyond Bond: Spies in Film and Fiction, Britton
traces the history of espionage in literature, film, and other
media, demonstrating how the spy stories of the 1840s began
cementing our popular conceptions of what spies do and how they do
it. Considering sources from Graham Greene to Ian Fleming, Alfred
Hitchcock to Tom Clancy, Beyond Bond looks at the tales that have
intrigued readers and viewers over the decades. Included here are
the propaganda films of World War II, the James Bond phenomenon,
anti-communist spies of the Cold War era, and military espionage in
the eighties and nineties. No previous book has considered this
subject with such breadth, and Britton intertwines reality and
fantasy in ways that illuminate both. He reveals how most themes
and devices in the genre were established in the first years of the
twentieth century, and also how they have been used quite
differently from decade to decade, depending on the political
concerns of the time. And he delves into such aspects of the genre
as gadgetry, technology, and sexuality-aspects that have changed
with the times as much as the politics have. In all, Beyond Bond
offers a timely and penetrating look at an intriguing world of
fiction, one that sometimes, and in ever-fascinating ways, can seem
all too real.
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