Top secret, cinema and espionage.

Who hasn't dreamed of being a spy? In cinema, thousands of films depict those who manage by all means, even risking their lives, to obtain confidential information. In the thrilling world of spy cinema, secret agents hide and disguise themselves as actors, while spies and directors share their passion for high-performance capture technologies.
Top secret is the first work devoted to the fruitful links between espionage and cinema, from cartoons and series since Protea de Jasset in 1913, through the films of Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Kathryn Bigelow, Brian De Palma, John Huston and Laura Poitras.
Taking the form of an Abecedarium, this book offers previously unpublished interviews with filmmakers Olivier Assayas, Arnaud Desplechin and Éric Rochant, with actress and James Bond Girl Léa Seydoux, as well as documented texts on the intertwined history of cinema and espionage. It exposes the driving forces of global geopolitics at work in 007 , 0SS , Jason Bourne , Argo , Shiri , Mission Impossible and the series Homeland , The Spy Or The Bureau of Legends . It also gives pride of place to fictional spies (X 27), documentaries (Chelsea Manning) as well as actress-spies such as Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo or Hedy Lamarr. Generously illustrated with images from films, posters, film sets, drawings, and works of art, it invites us to discover the underside of these worlds of deception, dissimulation, manipulation and state secrets that are totally Top secret .