Citizen Spy Television Espionage and Cold War by Michael Kackman PAPERBACK

Citizen SpyTelevision, Espionage, and Cold War Culture\nAuthor(s): Michael Kackman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816638291, 978-0816638291\nSynopsis\nIn Citizen Spy, Michael Kackman investigates how media depictions of the slick, smart, and resolute spy have been embedded in the American imagination. Looking at secret agents on television and the relationships among networks, producers, government bureaus, and the viewing public in the 1950s and 1960s, Kackman explores how Americans see themselves in times of political and cultural crisis.\n\nDuring the first decade of the Cold War, Hollywood developed such shows as I Led 3 Lives and Behind Closed Doors with the approval of federal intelligence agencies, even basing episodes on actual case files. These \""documentary melodramas\"" were, Kackman argues, vehicles for the fledgling television industry to proclaim its loyalty to the governme.