List of Illustrations

Introduction: Querying Method-A Choice Between the Sensual Obsession of Film Theory and Trainspotting The Avengers?

1. Spy Histories

2. 39/Thirty-Nine Steps to 'The Borders of the Possible' by Alfred Hitchcock, Amateur Observer

3. The Good Neighbor Program and Gilda; Global Commodities and The Third Man (with George Yúdice)

4. Class and Governance: Danger Man/The Prisoner, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, and The IPCRESS File

5. Cultural Imperialism and James Bond's Penis

6. Women Making Trouble-The Avengers, Honey West, and Modesty Blaise

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index