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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.
List 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 Stockdale.-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
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).
Summary
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.
