‘Essentially, another man’s woman’: Information and gender in the novel and adaptations of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

D'Arcy, Geraint ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-6005 (2014) ‘Essentially, another man’s woman’: Information and gender in the novel and adaptations of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Adaptation, 7 (3). pp. 275-290. ISSN 1755-0645

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Abstract

This article explores the commodification and conflation of gender and information that are manifest in the novel and the television, radio, and film adaptations ofTinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Even though the core thematic focus of the adaptations often correlate with those of the novel—concepts of love, obsession and rivalry—this article aims to show that the representation of material information is conflated with the representations of gender, in particular through the characters of Connie Sachs and Ann Smiley. In the adaptations studied, this manifests slightly differently in terms of narrative but is a core principle that the texts rely on for their dramatic structures. Consequently, each adaptation adapts something of the gender and information politics of the last thirty years.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	material feminism,spy dramas,gender,information anxiety,le carré,sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/gender_equality
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	29 Apr 2020 00:04
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2024 17:55
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74878
DOI:	10.1093/adaptation/apu029

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