Title Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (195 p.) Series Routledge Studies in Cultural History Series Routledge Studies in Cultural History Series Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Frontispiece -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Remembering John le Carré -- References -- Introduction: Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies -- History -- Adaptation -- Code -- Legacy -- References -- 1. Tracing le Carré: His Work on the Road -- Espionage Fiction -- Context -- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: The Novel, Series, and Film -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the le Carré Film Cycle, and the Espionage Thriller -- Introduction The Espionage Genre -- The Spy Film in the 1960s -- Le Carré, the Cold War, and MI6 -- Post-Cold War Internationalism -- The le Carré Spy Film -- Filmography -- References -- 3. The Days Before Empire Became a Dirty Word: Decline, Nostalgia, and Betrayal in John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy -- Great Britain on the International Stage After 1945 -- Spy Novelists' Response to the New Situation -- Contemporary Britain in le Carré's Novels -- The Secret Service as a Microcosm of the British Society -- Retreat Into Closed Communities -- Kim Philby: The Real and the Fictional Spy Le Carré's Personal Motivation -- References -- 4. Ethical Dilemmas in John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Its Adaptations -- Ethical Dilemmas: A Generic Constraint -- Ethical Dilemmas in the Clandestine World of Espionage -- John le Carré's Work Prior to Tinker Tailor -- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the Karla Trilogy -- The BBC Television Serial -- The Feature Film -- Ethical Dilemmas after Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Gramophone, Telephone, Radio, Spy: Mediation and Espionage -- Introduction -- Conversations -- Telephones -- Tapes -- Filmography Notes -- References -- 6. Searching for a Lost Home in the Labyrinth: Set Design in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy -- Introduction -- Production Design -- The Labyrinth -- Home -- Space -- In and Out (Boundaries and Transitions) -- Light -- Colour -- Set Decoration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7. Meeting the Real George Smiley?: John le Carré and Alec Guinness at the BBC (1978-82) -- Introduction -- The Making of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979): A Story by John le Carré -- 'He's Such an Old Thief': The Stealing of George Smiley -- Conclusion -- References 8. Essentially, Another Man's Woman: Information and Gender across Adaptations of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy -- Introduction -- Cold War le Carré -- Information as Commodity-The Novel -- Commodity of Connie Sachs -- Tinker Tailor ... on TV -- Connie's Other Commodity -- 'There Was Gold in Her ...' -- Ann Smiley, the Last Illusion -- References -- 9. Le Carré's Queer Nostalgia -- Introduction -- Double Agency: Spies and Other Queer Subjects -- Nostalgia's Queer Turns -- References -- 10. Interrogation in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy -- Introduction -- The Encounter with Karla Notes Description based upon print version of record The Interrogation of Jim Prideaux Subject Le Carré, John,-1931-2020.-Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy Le Carré, John,-1931-2020.-Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy-Adaptations-History and criticism Spy stories, English-Film adaptations-History and criticism Spy stories, English-Television adaptations-History and criticism Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000881172 1000881172

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