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The Avengers / Toby Miller.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.77.A923 M55 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Toby.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Avengers (Television program).
- Physical Description:
- vii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Film Institute, 1997.
- Summary:
- Censured by the U.S. Congress for violence and banned in the UK for electoral interference, the popular television series "The Avengers" combined pop art, fashion, tradition, modernity, high Englishness, feminism, espionage, the Cold War, Empire, sadism, fetishishm, and the fun of commodity. In a revealing study, film scholar Toby Miller focuses on the scripts of the series, the broadcast context, and the interpretations that followed. Illustrated.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0851705588
- OCLC:
- 38289556
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