Small stories, big changes : agents of change on the frontlines of sustainability / Lyle Estill. by Estill, Lyle

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Praise; Title Page; Rights Page; Contents; Also by Lyle Estill; Dedication; Foreword; Bryan Welch; Mother Earth News; Anne Tazewell; Secret Agent to Change Agent; Glen Estill; Sky Generation; Nicola Ross; On Sabbatical; Gary Phillips; All Round Activist; Jessalyn Estill; Good For Sale; Eric Henry; The Journey; Megan Toben; Pickards Mountain Eco Institute; Tim Toben; Greenbridge; Rebekah Hren; More QuestionsThan Answers; Blair L. …”
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European cinema and intertextuality : history, memory and politics / Ewa Mazierska. by Mazierska, Ewa

Table of Contents: “…or Not: Cinematic Representations of the End of Communism -- Twists of Fate: Secret Agents, Communist Collaborators and Secret Files in German, Polish and Czech films.…”

The classic Paramount Superman cartoons of Max & Dave Fleischer.

Table of Contents: “…Superman (10:22) -- The mechanical monsters (10:14) -- Billion dollar limited (8:35) -- The Arctic giant (8:35) -- The bulleteers (8:02) -- The magnetic telescope (7:38) -- Electric earthquake (8:42) -- Volcano (7:56) -- Terror on the midway (8:22) -- Japoteurs (9:05) -- Showdown (8:14) -- Eleventh hour (7:58) -- Destruction Inc. (8:32) -- The mummy strikes (7:46) -- Jungle drums (8:00) -- The underground world (8:13) -- Secret agent (7:39).…”

The Philosophy of TV Noir. by Sanders, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Dragnet, Film Noir, and Postwar RealismRealism and Documentary in the Film Noir; He Walked by Night; Dragnet: A Different Kind of Realism; ""The Story You Are about to See Is True""; Notes; Naked City: The Relativist Turn in TV Noir; The Relativist Turn; Relativism of Morality and Normality; Cultural Relativism; Problems with Cultural Relativism; Individual Relativism; Notes; John Drake in Greeneland: Noir Themes in Secret Agent; Why Drake Is Not Bond; The Influence of Graham Greene; Noir Themes in Secret Agent; Notes; Action and Integrity in The Fugitive; Duty and Motivation.…”
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Cheating : gaining advantage in videogames / Mia Consalvo. by Consalvo, Mia, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Creating the market : Easter eggs and secret agents -- Guidance goes independent : the rise of the strategy guide publishers -- Genies, sharks and chips : the technological side to cheating -- pt. 2. …”
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Perjury : the Hiss-Chambers case / Allen Weinstein. by Weinstein, Allen

Table of Contents: “…HUAC: a month of headlines -- Alger and Whittaker : the crucible of family -- The un-secret agent -- The Ware Group and the New Deal -- Perjury : a question of documents -- The dual life -- Spies and bureaucrats : the stolen documents -- Perjury : a question of candor -- The defection of "Karl" -- Alger and Whittaker : the forging of careers -- Rumors and whispers : the pursuit of evidence -- Deadlock : the first trial -- Conviction : the second trial -- Cold war iconography I : Alger Hiss as myth and symbol -- Alger and Whittaker : the vigil and the death watch -- Cold War iconography II : from Watergate to Red Square -- The Hiss labyrinth : six profiles.…”
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Mission: impossible / Paramount Pictures presents a Cruise/Wagner production ; a Brian De Palma film ; screenplay by David Koepp and Robert Towne ; produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner ; directed by Brian De Palma.

Daniel Defoe / Hossick, Malcolm.

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The comics come alive : a guide to comic-strip characters in live-action productions / by Roy Kinnard. by Kinnard, Roy, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Comics -- Ella Cinders -- The Flash -- Flash Gordon -- Friday Foster -- Gasoline Alley -- The Gumps -- Hairbreadth Harry -- Harold Teen -- Hazel -- Howard the Duck -- The Hulk -- Jane -- Joe Palooka -- Jon Sable -- Jungle Jim -- King of the Royal Mounted -- Let George Do It -- Li'l Abner -- Little Iodine -- Little Orphan Annie -- Mandrake, the Magician -- Micky McGuire (The Toonerville Folks) -- Modesty Blaise -- Mutt & Jeff -- The Newlyweds (Baby Snookums) -- Old Bill -- Old Doc Yak -- Peanuts (Charlie Brown) -- The Perils of Gwendoline -- The Phantom -- Popeye -- Prince Valiant -- Radio Patrol -- Red Barry -- Red Ryder -- The Sad Sack -- The Sea Hound -- Secret Agent X-9 -- Sheena -- Skippy -- Smilin' Jack -- Spider-Man -- The Spirit -- Spy Smasher -- Steve Canyon -- Superboy -- Supergirl -- Superman -- Swamp Thing -- Tailspin Tommy -- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -- Terry and the Pirates -- Tex Granger -- Thunda -- Tiffany Jones -- Tillie the Toiler -- Tim Tyler's Luck -- Up Front -- The Vigilante -- Wonder Woman -- Miscellaneous Entries.…”

Austin Powers, international man of mystery ; written by Mike Myers ; directed by Jay Roach.

Images of Idiocy : the Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film. by Halliwell, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Idiocy and Cultural Representation -- Part I: Idiocy in the Nineteenth Century -- 1 Romantic and Victorian Idiots -- 2 Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert and Jean Renoir) -- 3 The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky and Akira Kurosawa) -- Part II: Idiocy and Modernism -- 4 The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad and Alfred Hitchcock) -- 5 Kaspar Hauser (Jakob Wassermann and Werner Herzog) -- 6 Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck and Lewis Milestone) -- Part III: Idiocy After World War II -- 7 Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor and John Huston) -- 8 Waterland (Graham Swift and Stephen Gyllenhaal) -- 9 Such a Long Journey (Rohinton Mistry and Sturla Gunnarsson) -- Conclusion: Idiocy in Contemporary Film -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Hitchcock at the source : the auteur as adaptor / edited by R. Barton Palmer and David Boyd.

Table of Contents: “…Barton Palmer -- From stage to page / Thomas Leitch -- Hitchcock and the three Pleasure gardens / Sidney Gottlieb -- Hitchcock and The Manxman : a Victorian bestseller on the silent screen / Mary Hammond -- Blackmail : Charles Bennett and the decisive turn / Carles Barr -- The man who knew too much (1934) : Alfred Hitchcock, John Buchan, and the thrill of the chase / Mark Glancy -- Secret agent: coming in from the cold, Maugham style / R. …”

Alistair MacLean's Breakheart Pass / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc ; United Artists ; a Jerry Gershwin-Elliott Kastner production ; executive producer, Elliott Kastner ; producer, Jerry Gershwin ; director, Tom Gries.

Pretty poison / Twentieth Century Fox presents a Lawrence Turman production ; produced by Marshal Backlar and Noel Black ; screenplay by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. ; directed by Noel Black.

Alphaville : une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution / UGC/D.A. International ; distribué par Athos Film ; André Michelin, Filmstudio présentent le neuvième filme de Jean Luc Godard.

Hitchcock's British films / Maurice Yacowar ; with a foreword by Barry Keith Grant. by Yacowar, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) The 39 Steps (1935) ; Secret Agent (1936) ; Sabotage (1936) ; Young and Innocent (1937) ; The Lady Vanishes (1938) ; Jamaica Inn (1939) ; Conclusion: Hitchcock's Imagery and Art ; Appendix: Hitchcock's Appearances ; Notes ; Index ; BackCover.…”
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More than just war : narratives of the just war and military life / Charles A. Jones. by Jones, Charles A., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Terrorism: The Dynamiter and The Secret Agent; 13. The professional: Colonel Blimp; 14. …”
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Conrad's narratives of difference : not exactly tales for boys / by Lissa Schneider. by Schneider, Lissa, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER THREE Colonial Occupations: Race and Gender in ""An Outpost of Progress"" and The Nigger of the ""Narcissus""CHAPTER FOUR Politics in the House: Genre, Narrative, and the Domestic Drama in The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, and Lord Jim; CODA Narrative, Femininity, Death; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.…”
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Against all authority : anarchism and the literary imagination / Jeff Shantz. by Shantz, Jeff

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Body matter; Introduction -- Against all authority: Anarchism and the literary imagination; 1 -- Writing the anarchist specter: of secret agents and men called Thursday; 2 -- Beyond socialist realism; 3 -- Anarchy against format; 4 -- Intellectual proletarians; 5 -- An in-between socialism? …”
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Terrorism : politics, religion, literature / edited by Diogo Pires Aurélio and João Tiago Proença.

Table of Contents: “…Terrorism and Terrorists in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent / Miguel Morgado.…”
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