The Politics Of James Bond

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080326240X

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The Politics of James Bond by Jeremy Black Pdf

The adventures and antics of James Bond have provided the world with many of the most gripping story lines of the last half-century. Fleming?s novels were bestsellers in their day, and the Bond films have been even more popular, becoming the most enduring and successful film franchise in history. By some estimates, half of the world?s population has seen a James Bond movie. A fascinating and accessible account of this global phenomenon, The Politics of James Bond uses the plots and characterizations in the novels and the blockbuster films to place Bond in a historical, cultural, and political context. ø Jeremy Black charts and explores how the settings and the dynamics of the Bond adventures have changed over time in response to shifts in the real-world environment in which the fictional Bond operates. Sex, race, class, and violence are each important factors, as Agent 007 evolves from Cold War warrior to foe of SPECTRE and eventually to world defender pitted against megalomaniacal foes. The development of Bond, his leading ladies, and the major plots all shed light on world political attitudes and reflect elements of the real espionage history of the period. This analysis of Bond?s world and his lasting legacy offers an insightful look at both cultural history and popular entertainment.

Author : Edward P. Comentale,Stephen Watt,Skip Willman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0253217431

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Ian Fleming and 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 : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538126370

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The World of James Bond by Jeremy Black Pdf

The most current and insightful look at the politics and culture of the Bond world as the last Daniel Craig movie hits theaters. This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films. Jeremy Black offers a historian’s interpretation from the perspective of 2020 and the latest Bond film, assessing James Bond in terms of the greatly changing world order of the Bond years—a lifetime that stretches from 1953, when the first novel appeared, to the present. Black argues that the Bond novels—the Fleming books as well as the often-neglected novels authored by others after Fleming died in 1964—and films drew on current fears in order to reduce the implausibility of the villains and their villainy. The novels and films also presented potent images of national character, explored the rapidly changing relationship between a declining Britain and an ascendant United States, charted the course of the Cold War and the subsequent post-1990 world, and offered an evolving but always potent demonology. Bond was, and still is, an important aspect of post–World War II popular culture throughout the Western world. This was particularly so after Hollywood launched the filmic Bond, thus making him not only a character designed for the American film market but also a world product and a figure of globalization. Class, place, gender, violence, sex, race—all are themes that Black scrutinizes through the ongoing shifts in characterization and plot. His well-informed and well-argued analysis provides a fascinating history of the enduring and evolving appeal of James Bond. This updated edition explores new developments in the Daniel Craig years, looks to the post-Craig years, and considers the cultural significance of Bond in the modern world.

Author : Lisa Funnell,Klaus Dodds
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137570246

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Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond by Lisa Funnell,Klaus Dodds Pdf

This book discusses the representational geographies of the Bond film franchise and how they inform our reading of 007 as a hero. Offering a new and interdisciplinary lens through which the franchise can be analyzed, Funnell and Dodds explore a range of topics that have been largely, if not entirely, overlooked in Bond film scholarship. These topics include: the shifting and gendering of geopolitical relations; the differing depiction and evaluation of vertical/modern and horizontal/pre-modern spaces; the use of classical elements in defining gender, sexuality, heroic competency, and geopolitical conflict; and the ongoing importance of haptics (i.e. touch), kinesics (i.e. movement), and proxemics (i.e. the use of space) in defining the embodied and emotive world of Bond. This book is comprehensive in nature and scope as it discusses all 24 films in the official Bond canon and theorizes about the future direction of the franchise.

Author : Jaap Verheul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : James Bond films
ISBN : 946298218X

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The Cultural Life of James Bond by Jaap Verheul Pdf

The release of No Time To Die in 2021 heralds the arrival of the twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series. Since the release of Dr. No in 1962, the cinematic James Bond has expedited the transformation of Ian Fleming's literary creation into an icon of western popular culture that has captivated audiences across the globe by transcending barriers of ideology, nation, empire, gender, race, ethnicity, and generation. The Cultural Life of James Bond: Specters of 007 untangles the seemingly perpetual allure of the Bond phenomenon by looking at the non-canonical texts and contexts that encompass the cultural life of James Bond. Chronicling the evolution of the British secret agent over half a century of political, social, and cultural permutations, the fifteen chapters examine the Bond-brand beyond the film series and across media platforms while understanding these ancillary texts and contexts as sites of negotiation with the Eon franchise.

Author : James B. South,Jacob M. Held
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812698169

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James Bond and Philosophy by James B. South,Jacob M. Held Pdf

“Bond. James Bond.” Since Sean Connery first uttered that iconic phrase in Dr. No, more than one quarter of the world’s population has seen a 007 film. Witty and urbane, Bond seduces and kills with equal ease — often, it seems, with equal enthusiasm. This enthusiasm, coupled with his freedom to do what is forbidden to everyone else, evokes fascinating philosophical questions. Here, 15 witty, thought-provoking essays discuss hidden issues in Bond’s world, from his carnal pleasures to his license to kill. Among the lively topics explored are Bond’s relation to existentialism, including his graduation “beyond good and evil”; his objectification of women; the paradox of breaking the law in order to ultimately uphold it like any “stupid policeman”; the personality of 007 in terms of Plato’s moral psychology; and the Hegelian quest for recognition evinced by Bond villains. A reference guide to all the Bond movies rounds out the book’s many pleasures.

Author : Katie Reese
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656474517

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"Bond, James Bond". A Cultural and Political Approach at the Depiction of a Global Hero by Katie Reese Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,7, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: James Bond. There is hardly a person in the Western world who has never heard of the almost mythical secret agent; who has never seen at least one movie or heard the famous quotation “Bond. James Bond”. The secret agent, originally invented by the British author Ian Fleming has almost become something like a brand: there is just one Bond out there. Or, in this case seven. Ever since Ian Fleming published the first novel starring who would become the world’s most famous spy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, there have been many different interpretations of the character that actually is James Bond. The factors that played a major role in this matter were dependant on a number of different aspects. Even though it is undisputable that, in the case of the movies, one of the factors is always the actor, there are a number of different aspects to be taken into consideration: cultural and historical ones.

Author : James Chapman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Jeremy Strong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Tony Bennett,Janet Woollacott
Publisher : MacMillan Education, Limited
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Bond, James (Fictitious character).
ISBN : 0333286219

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Bond and Beyond by Tony Bennett,Janet Woollacott Pdf

Author : Christoph Lindner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Lisa Funnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850926

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For His Eyes Only by Lisa Funnell Pdf

The release of Skyfall in 2012 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. It earned over one billion dollars in the worldwide box office and won two Academy Awards. Amid popular and critical acclaim, some have questioned the representation of women in the film. From an aging M to the limited role of the Bond Girl and the characterization of Miss Moneypenny as a defunct field agent, Skyfall develops the legacy of Bond at the expense of women. Since Casino Royale (2006) and its sequels Quantum of Solace (2008) and Skyfall constitute a reboot of the franchise, it is time to question whether there is a place for women in the new world of James Bond and what role they will play in the future of series. This volume answers these questions by examining the role that women have historically played in the franchise, which greatly contributed to the international success of the films. This academic study constitutes the first book-length anthology on femininity and feminism in the Bond series. It covers all twenty-three Eon productions as well as the spoof Casino Royale (1967), considering a range of factors that have shaped the depiction of women in the franchise, including female characterization in Ian Fleming's novels; the vision of producer Albert R. Broccoli and other creative personnel; the influence of feminism; and broader trends in British and American film and television. The volume provides a timely look at women in the Bond franchise and offers new scholarly perspectives on the subject.

Author : Andrew Cook
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752469539

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Ace of Spies by Andrew Cook Pdf

Ace of Spies reveals for the first time the true story of Sidney Reilly, the real-life inspiration behind fictional hero James Bond. Andrew Cook's startling biography cuts through the myths to tell the full story of the greatest spy the world has ever know. Sidney Reilly influenced world history through acts of extraordinary courage and sheer audacity. He was a master spy, a brilliant con man, a charmer, a cad and a lovable rogue who lived on his wits and thrived on danger, using women shamelessly and killing where necessary - and unnecessary. Sidney Reilly is one of the most fascinating spies of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of the most enigmatic - until now.

Author : Tony Bennett,Janet Woollacott
Publisher : MacMillan Education, Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012993096

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Bond and Beyond by Tony Bennett,Janet Woollacott Pdf

Author : Ian Fleming
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787206458

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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Pdf

JAMES BOND declares war on Le Chiffre, French Communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH. The battle begins for the ace secret agent in a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat...gains momentum in his fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy...and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. The critics give a winning hand to Ian Fleming’s superlative thriller of espionage, adventure, intrigue and murder—CASINO ROYALE “Hums with tension...Author Fleming keeps his incidents and characters spinning through their paces like juggling balls.”—Time “A speed-breaker for thrills with a big dramatic scene set in a crowded casino.” Atlanta Journal Constitution “Excitement enough to intrigue the most hardened reader.”—Newark News “Mounting suspense on every page.”—Houston Chronicle “It’s superlative, everything such a story should be...One can only beg for more from Mr. Fleming.”—Pensacola News-Journal