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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. Winner of the 2022 Best Edited Collection British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Award.
List of contents
Acknowledgements, Introduction: Specters of 007, Jaap Verheul, Part I Beyond Britain: The Transnational Configuration of the James Bond Phenomenon, 1 The Forgotten Bond: The CBS Production of Casino Royale (1954), James Chapman, 2 A Socialist 007: East European Spy Dramas in the Early James Bond Era, Mikolaj Kunicki, 3 From Indianization to Globalization: Tracking Bond in Bollywood, Ajay Gehlawat, 4 The Dead Are Alive: The Exotic Non-Place of the Bondian Runaway Production, Melis Behlil, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, and Jaap Verheul, 5 Bond Rebooted: The Transnational Appeal of the Daniel Craig James Bond Films, Andrew Higson and Huw D Jones, Part II Beyond the Hero: The Cultural Politics of 007, 6 Paradoxical Masculinity: James Bond, Icon of Failure, Toby Miller, 7 Femininity, Seriality, and Collectivity: Rethinking the Bond Girl, Moya Luckett, 8 Market Forces: James Bond, Women of Color, and the Eastern Bazaar, Lorrie Palmer, 9 Shaken, Not Stirred Britishness: James Bond, Race, and the Transnational Imaginary, Anna Everett, 10 Global Agency between Bond and Bourne: Skyfall and James Bond in Comparison to the Jason Bourne Film Series, Seung-hoon Jeong, Part III Beyond the Films: The Transmediality of the James Bond Franchise, 11 James Bond and Art Cinema, Christopher Holliday, 12 Branding 007: Title Sequences in the James Bond Films, Jan-Christopher Horak, 13 Unlike Men, The Diamonds Linger: Bassey and Bond Beyond the Theme Song, Meenasarani Linde Murugan, 14 Skyfall and Global Casino Culture, Joyce Goggin, 15 Three Dimensions of Bond: Adaptive Fidelity and Fictional Coherence in the Videogame Adaptations of GoldenEye, Ian Bryce Jones and Chris Carloy, Index.
About the author
Japp Verheul is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, where his research focuses on the regulation of transnational flows of cultural production in European media industries.
