Espionage and exile : fascism and anti-fascism in British spy fiction and film / Phyllis Lassner.

Author
Lassner, Phyllis [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Description
1 online resource (vii, 245 pages) : illustrations.

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Espionage and Exile" demonstrates that from the 1930s through the Cold War British writers Eric Ambler, Helen MacInnes, John le Carre, Pamela Frankau and filmmaker Leslie Howard combine propaganda and popular entertainment to call for resistance to political oppression. Their spy fictions deploy themes of deception and betrayal to warn audiences of the consequences of Nazi Germany's conquests and later, the fusion of Fascist and Communist oppression. With politically charged suspense and compelling plots and characters, these writers challenge distinctions between villain and victim and exile and belonging by dramatising relationships between stateless refugees, British agents, and most dramatically, between the ethics of espionage and responses to international crisis.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-238) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2018).
ISBN
  • 9781474426848 (electronic book)
  • 1474426840 (electronic book)
  • 9781474401111 (electronic book)
  • 1474401112 (electronic book)
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