
- 192 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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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Yes, you can access Saints and Avengers by James Chapman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medien & darstellende Kunst & Fernsehgeschichte & -kritik. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Dirty Work Danger Man
- 2 Is There Honey Still For Tea? The Avengers
- 3 The English Knight Errant The Saint
- 4 Swinging Britain Adam Adamant Lives!
- 5 Have Gun, Will Travel Man in a Suitcase
- 6 Return from Shangri-La The Champions
- 7 The Marie Celeste Department S
- 8 The Ghostly Detectives Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
- 9 The Bohemian Touch Jason King
- 10 The Special Relationship The Persuaders!
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index