Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 282 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857716638
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1429427558
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1860647545
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1860647537
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9780857716637
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9781860647536
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9780755699407
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9781429427555
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9781860647543
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9780857716637
Content:
Eccentric, ironic and fantastic series like The Avengers and Danger Man, with their professional secret agents, or The Saint and The Persuaders, featuring flamboyant crime-fighters, still inspire mainstream and cult followings. Saints and Avengers explores and celebrates this unique television genre for the first time. He uses case studies to look, for example, at the thrillers' representations of national identity and the world of the sixties and seventies. He also proves his central thesis: that this particular type of thriller was a historically and culturally defined generic type, with end
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-270) and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1860647537
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781860647536
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chapman, James, 1968- Saints and avengers London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, ©2002
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755699407
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