Routledge Handbook of Media and Intelligence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matei, Florina Cristiana.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

This handbook examines media portrayals of intelligence institutions, cultures and conduct in various political regimes, showing how they inflect and reflect public views of the intelligence community.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Foreword

Section I: Theoretical Concepts

1 Introduction

2 Image and Imagination: Intelligence and Popular Culture in a Changing World

3 "Spot the Spy": A Century of Media Images of British Espionage and Intelligence

4 "They Come Not Single Spies but in Battalions" or Intelligence and Spycraft in Shakespeare's Times and Works and the Transference of Espionage Information to the Modern Era

5 Intelligence in Video Games in Comparative Perspective

6 Laughing Matters: Humor and Intelligence

Section II: Case Studies of Non‑Democratic or Nominally Democratic Regimes

7 A Century of Chekist Public Relations: Four Case Studies

8 China's Media Control and Manipulation

9 The Golden Collars: Deconstructing Heroes and Villains in an Iranian Spy Movie

Section III: Case Studies of Consolidated and Consolidating Democracies

10 Imagining Alternative Worlds: The Impact of Video Games on the US Intelligence Community

11 French "Spy"tacular: Intelligence in 21st‑Century Films

12 Chilling Affect: Nordic Noir and Intelligence

13 Now You See Us: The Special Case of an Intelligence Law in the Netherlands and the Referendum against It

14 The Portrayal of the Mossad in Film: A Content Analysis

15 The Shaping of the Public Image of Spain's Intelligence Services since the Transition to Democracy

16 Salazar's International and State Defense Police (PIDE) through the Eyes of Portuguese Radio and Television (RTP)

17 Memory, Fearmongering, and Identity in Film: Cultural Constructions of the Repressive Apparatus of the "Securitate" in Democratic Romania

18 Political Cadence: Mexico and the Dominican Republic's Indoctrination and the Media.

19 "Disappeared"? Deciphering Argentina's Intelligence Portrayal on Screen

20 Uruguay and Chile: Theatrical and Historical Media's Fragmentary Depiction of Intelligence during the Cold War Era

21 The Other Side of Silence: Peruvian Media during Insurgency and the Legacy of Collusion with SIN

22 The Influence of American Media on Brazilian Society: A Historical Overview with Contemporary Intelligence Implications

23 Fictional Representation of the Caribbean Basin's Intelligence

24 African Intelligence Services in Film

25 Whipping Up a Storm: Misrepresentation of India's Foreign Intelligence in Bollywood

26 Hints and Whispers: Impressions in Fiction of Singapore's Intelligence Culture and Security Sector

27 Someone Else Will Come: Expendable Spies in Divided Korea

28 Conclusion: Media in Intelligence and National Security

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-051134-1

1-04-074784-1

1-03-267878-X

9781032678788

OCLC:

1579270663

Publisher Number:

CIPO000340349