Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

While providing critical reflections on the work across generations of enthusiasts, this is the first book exclusively dedicated to John le Carré's 1974 novel and its adaptations in radio, TV, and film.

List of contents

1. Tracing le Carré: his work on the road
Toby Miller
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the le Carré film cycle, and the espionage thriller
Tom Ryall
3. The days before empire became a dirty word: decline, nostalgia and betrayal in John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Jost Hindersmann
4. Ethical dilemmas in John le Carre’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and its adaptations
Lars Ole Sauerberg
5. Gramophone, telephone, radio, spy: mediation and espionage
Brian Baker
6. Searching for a lost home in the labyrinth: set design in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Jane Barnwell
7. Meeting the real George Smiley?: John le Carré and Alec Guinness at the bbc (1978-82)
Joseph Oldham
8. ‘Essentially, another man’s woman’: information and gender in the novel and adaptations of John le Carre’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Geraint D’Arcy
9. Le Carré’s queer nostalgia
Randal Rogers
10. Interrogation in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tod Hoffman

About the author

Randal A. Rogers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Religion, and Critical Studies at the University of Regina. He is a SSHRC-funded scholar who is currently writing a book about queer subjects in the espionage genre of film and television.

Summary

While providing critical reflections on the work across generations of enthusiasts, this is the first book exclusively dedicated to John le Carré’s 1974 novel and its adaptations in radio, TV, and film.

Product details

• Authors: Randal (University of Regina Rogers
• Assisted by: Randal Rogers (Editor), Rogers Randal (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032171517
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3217151-7
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Media Studies, Performing Arts, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, PERFORMING ARTS / General, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, The arts, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General