Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films

007's signature conversation opener has become indelibly stamped on our cultural memory. So too have the visual images from twenty films--the Bond silhouette in the opening credits striding across the screen, then abruptly turning cameraward to fire his gun; the calculating smirk of Sean Connery and his heirs in their roles as England's foremost Secret Service agent; and, of course, the ritualistic ordering of the "shaken, not stirred" martini. The most popular movie series in movie history...