Citizen Spy Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture

Name: Citizen Spy Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture
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ISBN: 9780816638291

ISBN-10: 0816638292

ISBN-13: 9780816638291

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michael Kackman

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In "Citizen Spy," Michael Kackman investigates how media depictions of the slick, smart, and resolute spy have been embedded in the American imagination. Looking at secret agents on television and the relationships among networks, producers, government bureaus, and the viewing public in the 1950s and 1960s, Kackman explores how Americans see themselves in times of political and cultural crisis. During the first decade of the Cold War, Hollywood developed such shows as "I Led 3 Lives" and "Behind Closed Doors" with the approval of federal intelligence agencies, even basing episodes on actual case files. These "documentary melodramas" were, Kackman argues, vehicles for the fledgling…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.836



Preface: Doing Television History


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Agent and the Nation



Documentary Melodrama: Homegrown Spies and the Red Scare



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: African Americans and the Citizen-Subject



Agents or Technocrats: Mission: Impossible and the International Other


Conclusion: Spies Are Back


Notes