Jack Oldham
Biographic Data
| ID | 141461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Oldham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Oldham |
| SIGNATURE | OLDHAM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8409-3763 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Scripting the Soviet “Spy of the Century”
From 1975 to 1980, the British scriptwriter Arthur Hopcraft worked on numerous drafts for a proposed film biopic of H. A. R. (Kim) Philby, the notorious UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) officer who turned out to be a Soviet spy. The film was slated to be made by S. Benjamin Fisz Productions but was never produced. This article examines the five-year development of Philby, a project that, at various stages, saw the involvement of three notable…
‘What goes on behind the cloaks and daggers’
This article explores methods and approaches by which scholars can examine the representation of intelligence agencies in television drama, arguing that television can be productively separated from literature and film by virtue of its mass audience, its institutional character, and the form of the episodic series, which typically causes its narratives to hew towards the conservative and affirmative. This will be explored through and complicated …
“The hyena who stalks the capitalist deserts”
John le Carré’s spy fiction has long been hailed as an ‘opposite’ to Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories. This article re-examines this rivalry, first exploring how le Carré’s breakthrough, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) subverts the conventional Bondian narrative. I then examine le Carré’s development of a thesis on Bond as a figure whose consumerist qualities negated any moral core, an idea later developed into a subversion of the Bond p…
Don’t let the side down, old boy’
This article examines three British television plays which draw upon political and aesthetic radicalism to examine the Cold War traitor. John le Carré’s The End of the Line (1970) uses a traitor’s interrogation to create an absurdist vison of Cold War espionage whilst Dennis Potter’s Traitor (1971) uses experimental flashback techniques to explore the motives and moral ambiguities surrounding treachery. Although le Carré’s later novel Tinker Tail…
Seeing a conspiracy around every corner
The Whistleblowers is an unusual example of a British television conspiracy drama. Developed by Tony Marchant for ITV as a competitor to the BBC's Spooks, it centred on ordinary people struggling with the ethics of reporting malpractice in state or corporate institutions. This was invested with verisimilitude through advice from the whistleblowing charity Public Concern at Work, though kept in tension with generic expectations of the conspiracy t…
Paranoid visions
A balance of terror' : Callan (ITV, 1967-72) as an existential thriller for television -- 'A professional's contest' : procedure and bureaucracy in Special Branch (ITV, 1969-74) and The Sandbaggers (ITV, 1978-80) -- 'Who killed Great Britain?' : Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy (BBC 2, 1979) as a modern classic serial -- Conspiracy as a crisis of procedure in Bird of Prey (BBC 1, 1982) and Edge of Darkness (BBC 2, 1985) -- Death of a master narrative : …
Children and Work
Children and Work
What do children know about work, careers, and related topics? What is the pattern of growth in values, attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge? Using quantitative and anecdotal evidence gathered from interviewing over 900 grade-school students in five New Jersey communities, the authors analyze childhood socialization to the concept of work. Existing literature on this topic focuses on the critical years of oc-cupational choice. But Goldstein and Oldh…
Social Control of Voluntary Work Activity
Work activities which are highly valued are often reserved for performance by "pro fessional" workers. The presumption is that such workers perform at higher levels, are more highly motivated, and are subject to strong mternal social control. A notable exception to this pattern is found in the prevalence of voluntary first aid squads. The examination of such squads allows numerous theoretical and pragmatic questions to be raised concerning the ex…
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Social Control of Voluntary Work Activity
Work activities which are highly valued are often reserved for performance by "pro fessional" workers. The presumption is that such workers perform at higher levels, are more highly motivated, and are subject to strong mternal social control. A notable exception to this pattern is found in the prevalence of voluntary first aid squads. The examination of such squads allows numerous theoretical and pragmatic questions to be raised concerning the ex…
Children and Work
What do children know about work, careers, and related topics? What is the pattern of growth in values, attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge? Using quantitative and anecdotal evidence gathered from interviewing over 900 grade-school students in five New Jersey communities, the authors analyze childhood socialization to the concept of work. Existing literature on this topic focuses on the critical years of oc-cupational choice. But Goldstein and Oldh…
Children and Work
Paranoid visions
A balance of terror' : Callan (ITV, 1967-72) as an existential thriller for television -- 'A professional's contest' : procedure and bureaucracy in Special Branch (ITV, 1969-74) and The Sandbaggers (ITV, 1978-80) -- 'Who killed Great Britain?' : Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy (BBC 2, 1979) as a modern classic serial -- Conspiracy as a crisis of procedure in Bird of Prey (BBC 1, 1982) and Edge of Darkness (BBC 2, 1985) -- Death of a master narrative : …
Don’t let the side down, old boy’
This article examines three British television plays which draw upon political and aesthetic radicalism to examine the Cold War traitor. John le Carré’s The End of the Line (1970) uses a traitor’s interrogation to create an absurdist vison of Cold War espionage whilst Dennis Potter’s Traitor (1971) uses experimental flashback techniques to explore the motives and moral ambiguities surrounding treachery. Although le Carré’s later novel Tinker Tail…
Seeing a conspiracy around every corner
The Whistleblowers is an unusual example of a British television conspiracy drama. Developed by Tony Marchant for ITV as a competitor to the BBC's Spooks, it centred on ordinary people struggling with the ethics of reporting malpractice in state or corporate institutions. This was invested with verisimilitude through advice from the whistleblowing charity Public Concern at Work, though kept in tension with generic expectations of the conspiracy t…
‘What goes on behind the cloaks and daggers’
This article explores methods and approaches by which scholars can examine the representation of intelligence agencies in television drama, arguing that television can be productively separated from literature and film by virtue of its mass audience, its institutional character, and the form of the episodic series, which typically causes its narratives to hew towards the conservative and affirmative. This will be explored through and complicated …
“The hyena who stalks the capitalist deserts”
John le Carré’s spy fiction has long been hailed as an ‘opposite’ to Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories. This article re-examines this rivalry, first exploring how le Carré’s breakthrough, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) subverts the conventional Bondian narrative. I then examine le Carré’s development of a thesis on Bond as a figure whose consumerist qualities negated any moral core, an idea later developed into a subversion of the Bond p…
Scripting the Soviet “Spy of the Century”
From 1975 to 1980, the British scriptwriter Arthur Hopcraft worked on numerous drafts for a proposed film biopic of H. A. R. (Kim) Philby, the notorious UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) officer who turned out to be a Soviet spy. The film was slated to be made by S. Benjamin Fisz Productions but was never produced. This article examines the five-year development of Philby, a project that, at various stages, saw the involvement of three notable…
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