Toby Miller is Professor of Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is a well-known Film Theory and Cultural Studies critic, whose publications include A Companion to Film Theory (Basil Blackwell, 1999 - with Robert Stam), Film and Theory: An Anthology (Basil Blackwell, 2000 - with Robert Stam), and A Companion to Cultural Studies (Basil Blackwell, 2001). He is Editor of the journal Television and New Media.

• Preface ; Introduction ; 1. Spy Histories ; 2. Thirty-Nine Steps to 'the borders of the possible', taken by Alfred Hitchcock, amateur observer ; 3. Life in the Forties - The good neighbour programme, Gilda, The Third Man, and global commodities (with George Yudice) ; 4. Class and Governance: Danger Man/The Prisoner, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Spy who Came in from the Cold, and The Ipcress File ; 5. Cultural Imperialism and James Bond ; 6. The Avengers, Honey West, and Modesty Blaise - Women Making Trouble ; Conclusion: A Day That Will Live In...? ; References