Wes Britton's Spy Television (2004) was an overview of espionage on
the small screen from 1951 to 2002. His Beyond Bond: Spies in
Fiction and Film (2004) wove spy literature, movies, radio, comics,
and other popular media together with what the public knew about
actual espionage to show the interrelationships between genres and
approaches in the past century. Onscreen and Undercover, the last
book in Britton's "Spy Trilogy," provides a history of spies on the
large screen, with an emphasis on the stories these films present.
Since the days of the silent documentary short, spying has been a
staple of the movie business. It has been the subject of thrillers,
melodramas, political films, romances, and endless parodies as
well. But despite the developing mistrust of the spy as a figure of
hope and good works, the variable relationship between real spying
and screen spying over the past 100 years sheds light on how we
live, what we fear, who we admire, and what we want our
culture--and our world--to become. Onscreen and Undercover
describes now forgotten trends, traces surprising themes, and
spotlights the major contributions of directors, actors, and other
American and English artists. The focus is on movies, on and off
camera. In a 1989 National Public Radio interview, famed author
John Le Carre said a spy must be entertaining. Spies have to
interest potential sources, and be able to draw people in to
succeed in recruiting informants. In that spirit, Wes Britton now
offers Onscreen and Undercover.
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