James Bond's socialist rivals : television spy heroes and popular culture in the Cold War East / Tarik Cyril Amar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amar, Tarik Youssef Cyril, 1969- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spy television programs--History and criticism.

Spy television programs.

Cold War on television.

Television programs--Soviet Union--History.

Television programs.

Television programs--Poland--History.

Television programs--Germany (East)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Focusing on three blockbuster television series from the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany, this text recovers an essential aspect of the history of popular culture in Europe's Cold War East. As in the West, fictitious spy characters achieved mass appeal through film.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

James Bond's Socialist Rivals

Copyright

Contents

Notes on Terminology and Transliteration

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. World War II and the Holocaust: Memory and Oblivion in Stawka

2. A "Zone of Constant Compromise": Making Stawka

3. Inventing a Soviet Russian Popular Culture Icon: The Context and Origins of Seventeen Moments

4. Imagining a Perfect Soviet Russian Hero after Destalinization: The Meanings of Seventeen Moments

5. Cold War between the Germanies: The Context and Making of Visor

6. Contesting Home, Claiming Antifascism, and Confronting the West: Visor's Messages

7. A Cold War Conjuncture: Spy Heroes, Public Relations, and Television

8. Afterlives

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 19, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-091631-1

0-19-091629-X

OCLC:

1451665594