176 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television Violent Femmes examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and national identity. Fictional representations of women as spies have recurrently traced the dynamic of women’s changing roles in British and... Read more
Introduction 1. Spies, Lies and Sexual Outlaws: Male Spies in Popular Fiction 2. Femmes Fatale and British Grit: Women Spies in the First and Second World Wars 3. Dolly Birds: Female Spies in the 1960s 4. English Roses and All-American Girls: The New Avengers and The Bionic Woman 5. Nikita: From French Cinema to American Television 6. Alias: Quality Television and the Working Woman
Biography
Rosie White is Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University.
Violent Femmes debates femininity, power sexuality and national identity as the back cover blurb promises, by examining representation via different media (non fiction, film, television, comic strip) and in different national contexts (France and Hong Kong are mentioned though focus is on UK and US material) In this way it broadens its appeal to several possible audiences and could be useful to a range of disciplines. Critical Studies in Television
