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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808433903321

Autore

Kackman Michael

Titolo

Citizen spy : television, espionage, and Cold War culture / / Michael Kackman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press

[Bristol, : University Presses Marketing, distributor], c2005

ISBN

0-8166-9297-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Commerce and mass culture series

Disciplina

791.456

Soggetti

Spy television programs - United States - History and criticism

Television

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.