Introduction: Querying method : a choice between the sensual obsession of film theory and trainspotting the Avengers?
Spy histories
39/Thirty-nine steps to 'the borders of the possible' by Alfred Hitchcock, amateur observer
The Good Neighbor Program and Gilda; global commodities and The third man (with George Yúdice)
Class and governance: Danger man/The prisoner, The man from U.N.C.L.E.. The spy who came in from the cold, and The IPCRESS file
Cultural imperialism and James Bond's penis
Women making trouble : The avengers, Honey West and Modesty Blaise
Conclusion.
Spyscreen : espionage on film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s by Toby Miller. ISBN 0198159528. Published by Oxford University Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.