James Bond''s Socialist Rivals - Television Spy Heroes and Popular Culture in the Cold War East

About the author

Tarik Cyril Amar is Associate Professor of History at Koç University. He is the author of The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists.

Summary

James Bond's Socialist Rivals focuses on blockbuster television series in the former Soviet bloc of the Cold War to recover a world of spy fiction entertainment that was both hugely popular and of great and deliberate political importance for the Communist regimes.

Product details

• Authors: Tarik Cyril Amar, Tarik Cyril (Associate Professor of History Amar, Amar Tarik Cyril
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.12.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780190916282
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091628-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Crime, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Action & Adventure, Films, cinema, Film, TV & radio, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era