James Bond Will Return : : Critical Perspectives on the 007 Film Franchise /

James Bond Will Return : : Critical Perspectives on the 007 Film Franchise / / ed. by Claire Hines, Terence McSweeney, Stuart Joy.

For over six decades, James Bond has been a fixture of global culture, universally recognizable by the films' combination of action set pieces, sex, political intrigue, and outrageous gadgetry. But as the British Empire entered the final stages of collapse, as the Cold War wound down and the &q...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2024
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Hines, Claire,
Joy, Stuart,
McSweeney, Terence,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2024]
2024
Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: James Bond- Agent of Continuity and Change
  • 1. Bond and the New Elizabethans: Tradition and Modernity in Dr. No (1962)
  • 2. "A Real Labour of Love, as They Say": James Bond as a Sexual Plaything in From Russia with Love (1963)
  • 3. The Midas Touch: Eastmancolor, the Bond Franchise, and Goldfinger (1964)
  • 4. The Popular Geopolitics of Thunderball (1965): Look Up, Look Down, and Look Everywhere!
  • 5. Bond in the East: Orientalism and the Exotic in You Only Live Twice (1967)
  • 6. The Other Fellow: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
  • 7. Diamonds Are Forever (1971): 007 and Transatlantic States of Emergency
  • 8. From Harlem to San Monique: Spatial Dichotomies, Voodoo, and Cultural Identity in Live and Let Die (1973)
  • 9. "We All Get Our Jollies One Way or Another": The Perversity and Pleasure of Christopher Lee in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
  • 10. Nobody Does It Better: "Keeping the British End Up" at a Time of National Crisis in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  • 11. Moonraker (1979) and the Canvas of Escapism
  • 12. The Spectre of Death: Revenge and Retribution in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
  • 13. The (Clown) Suited Hero: James Bond, Costume, Gender, and Disguise in Octopussy (1983)
  • 14. Scowls and Cowls: Grace Jones, Costume Design, and A View to a Kill (1985)
  • 15. "A Time When Indiscriminating Bed- Hopping Is Definitely Not Advisable": Safe- Sex References in the UK Press Reception of The Living Daylights (1987)
  • 16. Bond in the New World Orders: Licence to Kill (1989)
  • 17. Cold War Nostalgia, (Geo)Political Progress, and James Bond in GoldenEye (1995)
  • 18. Bond by the Numbers: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
  • 19. Bond at the Crossroads: The World Is Not Enough (1999)
  • 20. The Digital Domain of Die Another Day (2002)
  • 21. What Matters More: Hierarchies of Value in Casino Royale (2006)
  • 22. "Like a Bullet . . .": Speed, Economy, and Canonical Continuity in Quantum of Solace (2008)
  • 23. "Sometimes the Old Ways Are the Best": Technology and the Body in a Gothic Reading of Sam Mendes's Skyfall (2012)
  • 24. "It's Always Been Me": Spectrality, Hauntings, and Retcon in Spectre (2015)
  • 25. No Time to Die (2021) and The Spy Who Loved #MeToo?
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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