James Bond Uncovered

by Jeremy Strong (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319761220
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	05/30/2018
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeremy Strong is Professor of Literature and Film at the University of West London, UK. He has chaired the Association of Adaptation Studies and is the author of Educated Tastes: Food, Drink and Connoisseur Culture (2011) and the novel Mean Business (2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction Jeremy Strong.-You Only Live Twice: A Tale of Two Bonds Graham Holderness.-James Bond’s Forgotten Beginnings: Television Adaptations Jonathan Bignell.-James Bond: International Man of Gastronomy?Jeremy Strong.-Bond Resounding Jonathan Skdale.-Breaking Bond’s Balls: A Feminist Re-Reading Ian Fleming Imelda Whelehan.-Mess and Meta-Mess: Casino Royale (1967). I. Q. Hunter.-Live and Let Die: The Tarot as Other in the 007 Universe Joyce Goggin.-Licence to Replicate: Never Say Never Again (1983) as 007’sLesson in Adaptation Studies Wieland Schwanebeck.-Thailand, Highland and Secret Island: Landscape and Powerin Bond Films Tim WatermanJames Bond and the End of Empire James Chapman.-The Resilient Agent: James Bond, ‘Nostalgic Geopolitics’and Skyfall Klaus Dodds.-The Evolution of M in the Latest Bond Franchise Instalments:Skyfall and Spectre Lucinda Hobbs.-James Bond:The Game Florian Stephens.-Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“James Bond Uncovered offers provocative insights on Agent 007, that debonair, ultra-British spy. This admirable collection reveals Bond the gastronomic taxonomer, Bond the neoliberal capitalist, and Bond the nostalgic Cold Warrior. Adaptation theory receives fresh treatment with geopolitical and end of Empire analyses. Spanning Fleming's novels through Bond's iterations in television and film to cyber Bond, these remarkable essays shake our assumptions about this cultural icon and stir us to examine him anew.” (Homer B. Pettey, University of Arizona, USA)

“This collection demonstrates, seemingly against the odds, why James Bond has refused to die. Jeremy Strong has assembled leading scholars from different fields to view the spy from a range of perspectives: from the novels, films, games, re-inventions, spin-offs, sexual politics, the myth of British superiority, the decline of empire and even food. Strong’s collection proves, beyond a doubt, that Bond in here to stay in academia as well as in popular culture.” (Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, UK)