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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Americans
  name:
    name part: Mizejewski, Linda
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 113 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
  abstract: Based on the actual KGB strategy of planting "illegals" into American life during the Cold War, The Americans (FX 2013-2018) focuses on Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Kerri Russell), Soviet spies posing as middlebrow travel agents in the Virginia suburbs. Groundbreaking and unsettling, The Americans spins its stories of espionage, violence and politics around narratives of marriage, romance, bromance and family. Exploring the series' bold merger of the spy genre and domestic melodrama, author Linda Mizejewski focuses on the characters and relationships that made this series memorable, the extraordinary women who defy the femme fatale stereotype of the spy genre, the conflicted men and perhaps most shockingly, the children who are both victims and provocateurs. Do viewers of this Cold War thriller root for "the good guys," the American agents in pursuit of the Jennings, or for the Jennings themselves, the attractive couple whose personal stories compel us even as they plot the takedown of the United States? Mizejewski argues for the importance of The Americans' portrayal of 1980s suburban life as a microcosm of the moral complexities of citizenship and national identity. Drawing on television studies and feminist media theory, this book examines the series' seamless loop of espionage violence and family melodrama, as well as its savvy uses of 1980s pop culture and music. Far from invoking nostalgia, the replication of the 1980s "look" invokes uncertainties about how, exactly, we should see Reagan's America and the Cold War. Yet the appeal of this series rests on solid footing in the Americanism it both critiques and espouses. Mizejewski examines The Americans' struggles with this ambiguity and with the contradictions of identity, gender, marriage and the meanings of home.
  table of contents: Wigs, sex, and women's work -- Marriage and bromance -- Family TV.
  note: Linda Mizejewski.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-108) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Americans (Television program : 2013-2018)
  subject:
    topic: Television programs
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Television series
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Spy television programs
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Families on television
  classification: PN1992.77.A5615 M59 2022
  classification: 791.45/72
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contemporary approaches to film and television series
      part name: TV milestones
  identifier: 9780814347430
  identifier: 0814347436
  record info:
    record content source: NBO
    record creation date: 220404
    record change date: 20220523203405.5
    record identifier: in00004575906