#1350 - Wesley Britton

Wesley Britton has had many lives as a writer. He’s been a scholar, poet, reviewer, interviewer, and contributor to many books and websites. He’s the author of four non-fiction books on espionage in film, television, history, and literature. In Wesley's book "Beyond Bond: Spies in Film and Fiction", Britton traces the history of espionage in literature, film, and other media, demonstrating how the spy stories of the 1840s began cementing our popular conceptions of what spies do and how they do it. Wesley reveals how most themes and devices in the genre were established in the first years of the twentieth century, and also how they have been used quite differently from decade to decade, depending on the political concerns of the time.