Annotated Bibliography
Genre: Action/ Spy Fiction
Action
This article explains the different elements required to make media in the action adventure genre by analyzing key components that are identifiable within the film or television show. The amount of action in this film and the series is extreme due to the many gunfights, car crashes, explosions— and the like, that would put both the series and the movie into this genre.
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Spy Fiction
The Spy Fiction genre consists of elements of espionage that are used to tell the story. It is a fairly recent genre that was created due to the rise of global superpowers like the U.S and Russia. Common tropes in spy fiction drama are secret meetings, codes and ciphers, and double-crosses.
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Social History: Mission: Impossible TV series (1966) & Mission:Impossible film (1996)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
This show aired during the middle of the Cold War, a time when Americans were afraid of being invaded by Communists. A lot of the show focuses on a variety of locales within communist countries where a handpicked team is tasked with retrieving or seeding information, items, or people in order to disrupt plans enacted by potential threats against America specifically, and generally governments of the West.
https://www.britannica.com/
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Mission: Impossible (1996)
In the film version, the focus is primarily on Tom Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt being hunted by the government after a botched op where he's framed for treason. At the end of the film, we find that one of the agents with him was a traitor.
This was released 5 years after the end of the Cold War. In 1995, there was a domestic terror attack in Oklahoma that killed dozens and injured hundreds. This then shifts the cultural perspective of the enemy from one that was foreign, to domestic. In the 1990’s we see a radical change in how with the rise of the internet and PCs, smaller and sleeker tech is shown to be a major asset in the spy’s toolkit.
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