Saints and avengers

Description:

"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."--

subjects: History and criticism,  Detective and mystery television programs,  Action and adventure television programs,  Adventure television programs,  Television programs,  Television broadcasting, great britain,  Television series,  Television series--history and criticism,  Television series--great britain--history and criticism,  Action and adventure television programs--history and criticism,  Action and adventure television programs--great britain--history and criticism,  Detective and mystery television programs--history and criticism,  Detective and mystery television programs--great britain--history and criticism,  Pn1992.8.d48 c43 2002,  791.4575

Places: Great Britain