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Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s

By James Chapman

Book information

Publisher
I.B.Tauris
Year
2002
ISBN
9780755699407, 9781860647543
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1507225 bytes)
Pages
\290
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 20:36:52

Description

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 television genre for the first time. Saints and Avengers uses case studies to look, for example, at the adventure series' representations of national identity and the world of the sixties and seventies. Chapman also proves his central thesis: that this particular type of thriller was a historically and culturally defined generic type, with enduring appeal, as the current vogue for remaking them as big budget films attests.

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