‘What goes on behind the cloaks and daggers’: George Markstein and the dramatization of counterintelligence on British television

IF 0.8 3区社会学 Q1 HISTORY

Intelligence and National Security Pub Date : 2023-01-04 DOI:10.1080/02684527.2022.2159659

Joseph Oldham

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article explores methods and approaches by which scholars can examine the representation of intelligence agencies in television drama, arguing that television can be productively separated from literature and film by virtue of its mass audience, its institutional character, and the form of the episodic series, which typically causes its narratives to hew towards the conservative and affirmative. This will be explored through and complicated by a case study of the career of television writer George Markstein and three series which he played a key role in creating and overseeing: The Prisoner, Special Branch and Mr Palfrey of Westminster.

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摘要本文探讨了学者们研究情报机构在电视剧中的表现的方法和途径，认为电视可以通过其大众观众、制度特征和情节系列的形式与文学和电影有效地分离，这通常会导致其叙事倾向于保守和肯定。这将通过对电视作家乔治·马克斯坦职业生涯的案例研究以及他在创作和监督中发挥关键作用的三部连续剧来探索，并使其变得复杂：《囚犯》、《特别部门》和《威斯敏斯特的帕尔弗雷先生》。

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