1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Media and Intelligence

Edited By Florina Cristiana Matei, Carolyn Halladay Copyright 2026
478 Pages
by Routledge

478 Pages
by Routledge

This handbook examines media portrayals of intelligence institutions, cultures, and conduct in various political regimes, showing how they inflect and reflect public views of the intelligence community. Specifically, this volume assesses how popular media portrayals of intelligence agencies influence such realms as public perception, opinion, and support of intelligence; recruitment endeavours;... Read more

Foreword, Robert Dover  Section I: Theoretical Concepts  Chapter 1: Introduction, Florina Cristiana Matei and Carolyn Halladay  Chapter 2: Image and Imagination: Intelligence and Popular Culture in a Changing World, Carolyn Halladay and Florina Cristiana Matei  Chapter 3: "Spot the Spy": A Century of Media Images of British Espionage and Intelligence, Bruce Thompson and Maya González  Chapter 4: “They Come Not Single Spies but in Battalions” Or Intelligence and Spycraft in Shakespeare’s Times and Works and the Transference of Espionage Information to the Modern Era, Michael Willis  Chapter 5: Intelligence in Video Games in Comparative Perspective, Thomas Glade  Chapter 6: Laughing Matters: Humor and Intelligence, Carolyn Halladay and Paul Clark  Section II: Case Studies of Non-Democratic or Nominally Democratic Regimes  Chapter 7: A Century of Chekist Public Relations: Four Case Studies, Filip Kovacevic  Chapter 8: China's Media Control and Manipulation, Joshua Henson  Chapter 9: The Golden Collars: Deconstructing Heroes and Villains in an Iranian Spy Movie, Arvin Khoshnood and Ardavan M. Khoshnood  Section III: Case Studies of Consolidated and Consolidating Democracies  Chapter 10: Imagining Alternative Worlds: The Impact of Video Games on the US Intelligence Community, Dan White  Chapter 11: French “Spy”tacular: Intelligence in 21st-Century Films, Laura Gogny, Albert Christian Matei with Florina Cristiana Matei and Andrès de Castro  Chapter 12: Chilling Affect: Nordic Noir and Intelligence, Carolyn Halladay and Paul Clark  Chapter 13: Now You See Us: The Special Case of an Intelligence Law in the Netherlands and the Referendum against It, Adina Stefan  Chapter 14: The Portrayal of the Mossad in Film: A Content Analysis, Nadav Morag  Chapter 15: The Shaping of the Public Image of Spain’s Intelligence Services since the Transition to Democracy, Rubén Arcos and Antonio M. Díaz‑Fernández  Chapter 16: Salazar´s International and State Defense Police (PIDE) through the Eyes of Portuguese Radio and Television (RTP), Andrés de Castro and Enrique Fernández-Carrera  Chapter 17: Memory, Fearmongering, and Identity in Film: Cultural Constructions of the Repressive Apparatus of the “Securitate” in Democratic Romania, Cristina Ivan, Irena Chiru and Andreea Stoian Karadeli  Chapter 18: Political Cadence: Mexico and the Dominican Republic’s Indoctrination and the Media, Catherine F. Lantigua  Chapter 19: “Disappeared”? Deciphering Argentina’s Intelligence Portrayal on Screen, Florina Cristiana Matei  Chapter 20: Uruguay and Chile: Theatrical and Historical Media’s Fragmentary Depiction of Intelligence during the Cold War Era, Richard Elmore  Chapter 21: The Other Side of Silence: Peruvian Media during Insurgency and the Legacy of Collusion with SIN, Jacques Suyderhoud  Chapter 22: The Influence of American Media on Brazilian Society: A Historical Overview with Contemporary Intelligence Implications, Bruno Dias with Carolyn Halladay  Chapter 23: Fictional Representation of the Caribbean Basin’s Intelligence, Kevin Peters  Chapter 24: African Intelligence Services in Film, Marcella Myers  Chapter 25: Whipping Up a Storm: Misrepresentation of India’s Foreign Intelligence in Bollywood, Dheeraj Paramesha Chaya  Chapter 26: Hints and Whispers: Impressions in Fiction of Singapore’s Intelligence Culture and Security Sector, Shannon Brown  Chapter 27: Someone Else Will Come: Expendable Spies in Divided Korea, Marianne Taflinger  Chapter 28: Conclusion: Media in Intelligence and National Security, Jan Goldman

Biography

Florina Cristiana Matei is a senior lecturer at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School, California. She is the co-editor (with Thomas Bruneau) of The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations (2012, 2021); (with Halladay) of The Conduct of Intelligence in Democracies: Processes, Practices, Cultures (2019); and (with Halladay and Estevez) of The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures (2022).

Carolyn Halladay is a historian and a lawyer, who serves as a senior lecturer and academic associate at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School, California.