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Eurospy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈjʊə.ɹəʊ.spaɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Euro- + spy. Most Eurospy films were produced in continental Europe, especially Italy.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A genre of comedic spy film inspired by James Bond and popular in the 1960s, typically about dapper womanizing secret agents in exotic locales.
   • Russell is most famous in genre circles for his European output in the 1960s, including Antonio Margheriti's Wild, Wild Planet and War of the Planets and the Eurospy adventures Secret of the Sphinx and Target Gold-seven. 2015 January 27, David Deal, Television Fright Films of the 1970s, McFarland, →ISBN, page 88:
   • His vernacular film framework that he applied to understanding giallos is easily applied to any Italian filone and is extremely fitting for the Italian Eurospies. 2014 November 12, Michele Brittany, James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy, McFarland, →ISBN, page 36:
   • But in addition to slaking a real thirst among European moviegoers, the Eurospies, according to Rui Lopes, also "mixed the utopia of unrestricted traveling, titillation, and (imperial) hedonism with nightmarish anxieties over powerlessness against overwhelming, tentacular forces." 2026 March 24, Florina Cristiana Matei, Carolyn Halladay, Routledge Handbook of Media and Intelligence, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

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