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Citizen spy : television, espionage, and Cold War culture / Michael Kackman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kackman, Michael.
- Series:
- Commerce and mass culture series.
- Commerce and mass culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spy television programs--United States--History and criticism.
- Spy television programs.
- Television.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; [Bristol : University Presses Marketing, distributor], c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looking at secret agents on television in the 1950's and 1960's, Michael Kackman explores how Americans see themselves in times of political and cultural crisis. From parodies such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Get Smart to the more complicated situations of I Spy and Mission: Impossible, Kackman situates espionage television within the culture of the civil rights and women's movements and the war in Vietnam.
- Contents:
- Documentary melodrama
- I led 3 lives and the agent of history
- The irrelevant expert and the incredible shrinking spy
- Parody and the limits of agency
- I spy a colorblind nation
- Agents or technocrats.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9297-1
- OCLC:
- 476095825
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb08282 hdl
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