Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960

by Alan Burton

Book Overview

Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960 is a detailed historical and critical overview of espionage in British film and television in the important period since 1960. From that date, the British spy screen was transformed under the influence of the tremendous success of James Bond in the cinema (the spy thriller), and of the new-style spy writing of John le Carr and Len Deighton (the espionage story). In the 1960s, there developed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1622734653
• ISBN13: 9781622734658
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Vernon Press
• Length: 556 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"