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Author : Steven Jay Rubin
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781641600859

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The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia by Steven Jay Rubin Pdf

"Nobody does 007 encyclopedias better than Bond historian Steven Jay Rubin. Buy this one. M's orders." —George Lazenby, James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service Packed with behind-the-scenes information, fascinating facts, trivia, bloopers, classic quotes, character bios, cast and filmmaker bios, and hundreds of rare and unusual photographs of those in front of and behind the camera Ian Fleming's James Bond character has entertained motion picture audiences for nearly sixty years, and the filmmakers have come a long way since they spent $1 million producing the very first James Bond movie, Dr. No, in 1962. The 2015 Bond title, Spectre, cost $250 million and grossed $881 million worldwide—and 2021's No Time to Die is certain to become another global blockbuster. The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia is the completely up-to-date edition of author Steven Jay Rubin's seminal work on the James Bond film series. It covers the entire series through No Time to Die and showcases the type of exhaustive research that has been a hallmark of Rubin's work in film history. From the bios of Bond girls in front of the camera to rare and unusual photographs of those behind it, no detail of the Bond legacy is left uncovered.

Author : Matthew Field,Ajay Chowdhury
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750966504

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Some Kind of Hero by Matthew Field,Ajay Chowdhury Pdf

For over 50 years, Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions has navigated the ups and downs of the volatile British film industry, enduring both critical wrath and acclaim in equal measure for its now legendary James Bond series. Latterly, this family run business has been crowned with box office gold and recognised by motion picture academies around the world. However, it has not always been plain sailing. Changing financial regimes forced 007 to relocate to France and Mexico; changing fashions and politics led to box office disappointments; and changing studio regimes and business disputes all but killed the franchise. And the rise of competing action heroes has constantly questioned Bond's place in popular culture. But against all odds the filmmakers continue to wring new life from the series, and 2012's Skyfall saw both huge critical and commercial success, crowning 007 as the undisputed king of the action genre. Some Kind of Hero recounts this remarkable story, from its origins in the early '60s right through to the present day, and draws on hundreds of unpublished interviews with the cast and crew of this iconic series.

Author : Sally Hibbin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:39000001275630

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The Official James Bond 007 Movie Book by Sally Hibbin Pdf

Author : Meg Simmonds
Publisher : DK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art and motion pictures
ISBN : 1465437908

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Bond by Design by Meg Simmonds Pdf

Bond By Design gives an exclusive tour through EON Productions' James Bond archives - a treasure trove of set, storyboard, vehicle, gadget and costume designs, many of which have never been published before. Accessing EON Productions' vast archive of more than 50 years of art and design, Bond By Designfeatures the work of legendary Bond film designers such as Ken Adam, Peter Lamont and Syd Cain. The book provides a unique, spectacular and fascinating insight into the longest-running film franchise of all time. It reveals the craft behind the creation of famous sets, such as Stromberg's Atlantis base in The Spy Who Loved Me and Drax's shuttle launch site in Moonraker, as well as technical drawings of Bond's gadget-laden Aston Martin DB5. Includes two exclusive, full-colour prints of Bond film designs.

Author : Ian Fleming
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547194217

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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Casino Royale" by Ian Fleming. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : James Chapman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231120486

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Licence to Thrill by James Chapman Pdf

Bondmania hasn't ebbed for 40 years and this book explains why Britain's most celebrated secret agent and the stories around him have enraptured the world for so long. Film stills.

Author : Christoph Lindner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719065410

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The James Bond Phenomenon by Christoph Lindner Pdf

Shanghai, long known as mainland China's most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examination of contemporary Shanghai-based art and design - from state-sponsored exhibitions to fashionable cultural complexes to cutting edge films and installations. Informed by years of in-situ research, the book looks beyond contemporary art's global hype to reveal the socio-political tensions accompanying Shanghai's transitions from semi-colonial capitalism to Maoist socialism to Communist Party-sponsored capitalism. Case studies reveal how Shanghai's global aesthetic constructs glamorising artifices that mask the conflicts between vying notions of foreign-influenced modernity and anti-colonialist nationalism, as well as the city's repressed socialist past and its consumerist present.

Author : Edward P. Comentale,Stephen Watt,Skip Willman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bond, James (Fictitious character).
ISBN : 0253345235

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Ian Fleming & James Bond by Edward P. Comentale,Stephen Watt,Skip Willman Pdf

Shaken, not stirred--cultural critics look at the many faces of 007 and his creator.

Author : Will Lawrence
Publisher : Eaglemoss
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781858756080

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The James Bond Film Guide by Will Lawrence Pdf

Celebrating 60 years of James Bond films! The essential guide to all 25 Bond adventures, including No Time to Die, starring Daniel Craig! The James Bond Film Guide has it all: facts on the stories, characters, vehicles, gadgets, and locations of each 007 movie. This authorized guide takes fans through six decades of one of the entertainment industry’s greatest, most-enduring film franchises ever, and it boasts nearly 1,000 photographs, posters, and movie images from the filmmakers’ extensive archives. 007 expert Will Lawrence, author of Blood, Sweat and Bond: Behind the Scenes of Spectre, delivers an indispensable guide to what happened in which film – and when – providing everything new and longtime fans alike could ever want to know about the world of James Bond. That phenomenal world has been at the center of EON Productions’ iconic film franchise, the long-running big screen series in history, since the release of Dr. No in 1962, and continuing later this year with No Time to Die.

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783303703267

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Introduction to List of highest-grossing films by Gilad James, PhD Pdf

The list of highest-grossing films is a compilation of movies that generated the most revenue at the box office worldwide. The list has been compiled and updated annually by various sources including the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Box Office Mojo and Guinness World Records. The popularity and consumption of movies have consistently grown over the years, resulting in a surge of film productions globally. With the advent of technology, filmmakers have been able to create more sophisticated and aesthetically pleasing visual effects, making movies more immersive and appealing to audiences. Movie franchises such as Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Star Wars, and James Bond are prominent in the list of highest-grossing films. The success of these franchises can be attributed to their ability to create a deep connection with the audience through the characters, storyline, and world-building. Their storytelling elements are also coherent and inter-connected, resulting in successful and critically acclaimed movies. In recent years, a shift towards a more diverse and inclusive representation in films has resulted in the success of movies such as Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians. These films resonated with audiences globally, resulting in high box-office earnings and recognition for their contribution to the film industry.

Author : Michele Brittany
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476618210

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James Bond and Popular Culture by Michele Brittany Pdf

The most recognizable fictional spy and one of the longest running film franchises, James Bond has inspired a host of other pop culture contributions, including Doctor Who (the Jon Pertwee era), the animated television comedy series Archer, Matt Kindt’s comic book series Mind MGMT, Japan’s Nakano Spy School Films, the 1960s Italian Eurospy genre, and the recent 007 Legends video game. This collection of new essays analyzes Bond’s phenomenal literary and filmic influence over the past 50-plus years. The 14 essays are categorized into five parts: film, television, literature, lifestyle (emphasis on fashion and home décor), and the Bond persona reinterpreted.

Author : Melvyn Stokes,Matthew Jones,Emma Pett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911239918

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Cinema Memories by Melvyn Stokes,Matthew Jones,Emma Pett Pdf

Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in Britain during the 1960s. It offers a fresh perspective on the social, cultural and film history of what has come to be seen as an iconic decade, with the release of films such as A Taste of Honey, The Sound of Music, Darling, Blow-Up, Alfie, The Graduate, and Bonnie and Clyde. Drawing on first-hand accounts, authors Melvyn Stokes, Matthew Jones and Emma Pett explore how cinema-goers constructed meanings from the films they watched - through a complex process of negotiation between the films concerned, their own social and cultural identities, and their awareness of changes in British society. Their analysis helps the reader see what light the cultural memory of 1960s cinema-going sheds on how the Sixties in Britain is remembered and interpreted. Positioning their study within debates about memory, 1960s cinema, and the seemingly transformative nature of this decade of British history, the authors reflect on the methodologies deployed, the use of memories as historical sources, and the various ways in which cinema and cinema-going came to mean something to their audiences.

Author : Jeremy Strong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319761237

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James Bond Uncovered by Jeremy Strong Pdf

This volume brings fresh perspectives to the study of James Bond. With a strong emphasis on the process of Bond’s incarnation on screen and his transit across media forms, chapters examine Bond in terms of adaptation, television, computer games, and the original novels. Film nonetheless provides the central focus, with analysis of both the corpus as a whole—from Dr. No to Spectre—and of particular films, from popular and much-discussed movies such as Goldfinger and Skyfall to comparatively under-examined texts such as the 1967 Casino Royale and A View to a Kill. Contributors’ expertise and interests encompass such diverse aspects of and approaches to the Bond stories as Sound Design, Empire, Food and Taste, Geo-politics, Feminist re-reading, Tarot, Landscape and Sets.

Author : Daniel Ferreras Savoye
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476600123

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The Signs of James Bond by Daniel Ferreras Savoye Pdf

This book is an analysis of the most significant elements that compose the "Bond formula," such as names, binary oppositions and narrative patterns. It tackles Ian Fleming's novels as well as the 22 films of the Eon Productions series and follows the evolution of certain determining features (paradigms) from the text to the screen, to determine their function within the narration. This study reveals how the James Bond universe goes well beyond mere spy adventures to become a genre in itself as well as, now, a standard cultural reference. The book also shows that the underlying ideology of the James Bond narration is not as conservative as it might appear, for it promotes ideals of the Enlightenment period such as secularity, pragmatism and the common good.

Author : Nader Elhefnawy
Publisher : Nader Elhefnawy
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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James Bond's Evolution by Nader Elhefnawy Pdf

Just what inspired Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels? What exactly did they do to lay the foundations for the classic Bond films of the '60s-and how did the films break with the books? How did EON Productions manage to keep audiences coming back for decades? What really changed in the reboot-and what stayed the same? How do the later Bond novels of writers like John Gardner and William Boyd fit into the bigger picture? JAMES BOND'S EVOLUTION: FROM CASINO ROYALE TO SPECTRE looks at all these questions and more in a study not just of the novels or the films but both which traces the broader Bond phenomenon from its origins in post-World War II Britain to the present. In doing so it looks not just at where it all came from, but how the Bond films and books were transformed time and again to stay popular through six tumultuous decades of political and cultural change.