TY - JOUR
T1 - The Eurospy boom and the evolution of Europe's transnational identity
AU - Lopes, Rui
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04209%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F04209%2F2020/PT#
UIDB/04209/2020
UIDP/04209/2020
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article discusses the role of the fictionalization of intelligence in the history of European transnationalism. It focuses on the boom of spy films co-produced in continental Europe in the 1960s, examining how their materialization implied large-scale transnational processes of production and distribution. It argues that, although this dimension shaped the films' form and content, their plots continued to reproduce and reify notions of raison d'etat, national security, and geopolitics. Yet, while cinema enacted enduring tensions between national and transnational identities, it framed such tensions as a displaced fantasy, thus conciliating them with the evolving political imagination of European integration.
AB - This article discusses the role of the fictionalization of intelligence in the history of European transnationalism. It focuses on the boom of spy films co-produced in continental Europe in the 1960s, examining how their materialization implied large-scale transnational processes of production and distribution. It argues that, although this dimension shaped the films' form and content, their plots continued to reproduce and reify notions of raison d'etat, national security, and geopolitics. Yet, while cinema enacted enduring tensions between national and transnational identities, it framed such tensions as a displaced fantasy, thus conciliating them with the evolving political imagination of European integration.
UR - https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000784626800001
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129392307&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02684527.2022.2065608
DO - 10.1080/02684527.2022.2065608
M3 - Article
SN - 0268-4527
VL - 37
SP - 581
EP - 592
JO - INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
JF - INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
IS - 4
ER -