Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. John Barry's arrangement of the James Bond theme. These iconic melodies have remained a part of the pop culture landscape since their debuts in the late 1950s and early '60s: a "golden decade" that highlighted an era when movie studios and TV production companies employed full orchestral ensembles to provide a jazz backdrop for the suspenseful adventures of secret agents, private detectives, cops, spies and heist-minded criminals. Hundreds of additional films and television shows made during this period were propelled by similarly swinging title themes and underscores, many of which have (undeservedly) faded into obscurity. This meticulously researched book traces the embryonic use of jazz in mainstream entertainment from the early 1950s--when conservative viewers still considered this genre "the devil's music"--to its explosive heyday throughout the 1960s. Fans frustrated by the lack of attention paid to jazz soundtrack composers--including Jerry Goldsmith, Edwin Astley, Roy Budd, Quincy Jones, Dave Grusin, Jerry Fielding and many, many others--will find solace in these pages (along with all the information needed to enhance one's music library). The exploration of action jazz continues in this book's companion volume, Crime and Action Jazz on Screen Since 1971.
But this is only half the story; the saga's origins are discussed in this book's companion volume, Crime and Action Jazz on Screen: 1950-1970.
Through this book, Johnston presents a discussion of music for silent films that contradicts long-held assumptions about what silent film music is and must be, with thought-provoking implications for both historical and contemporary film ...
The Great Spy Pictures
... scientist being held in the United States. The Italian-language Fury in Marrakech (1965) had a secret agent (Stephen Forsyth) investigating rouge agents who have discovered the hiding place where Hitler has buried a fortune. Forsythe ...
New York : Grosset & Dunlap , 1977 . Peterborough . ' Any Old Irony . ... Polmar , Norman and Thomas B. Allen . “ The Decade of the Spy . ... Plots and Paranoia : A History of Political Espionage in Britain 1790–1988 .
Anatomy of the Spy Thriller: 1890-1930
Spies: The Secret Agents who Changed the Course of History
Dark Duet: A 'Dark' Series Thriller
From crime-busting heroes to enemies of free speech, this volume examines the evolution of Hollywood's portrait of the FBI over the last 75 years.
... Roger Donaldson ) , 80 Nolan , Christopher , 146 Nolan , Jeanette , 35 , 94 , 225 Nolan , William F. , 311n9 Nolte , Nick , 300 North by Northwest ( 1959 , Alfred Hitchcock ) , 17 , 88 North , Pam and Jerry ( chars . ) ...