Eurospy

plural Eurospies

1. countableuncountableA genre of comedic spy film inspired by James Bond and popular in the 1960s, typically about dapper womanizing secret agents in exotic locales.

   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

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   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

   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