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James Bond Uncovered
About this book
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 wholeāfrom Dr. No to Spectre āand 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- You Only Live Twice: A Tale of Two Bonds
- James Bondās Forgotten Beginnings: Television Adaptations
- James Bond: International Man of Gastronomy?
- Bond Resounding
- Breaking Bondās Balls: A Feminist Re-Reading Ian Fleming
- Mess and Meta-Mess: Casino Royale (1967)
- Live and Let Die: The Tarot as Other in the 007 Universe
- Licence to Replicate: Never Say Never Again (1983) as 007ās Lesson in Adaptation Studies
- Thailand, Highland and Secret Island: Landscape and Power in Bond Films
- James Bond and the End of Empire
- The Resilient Agent: James Bond, āNostalgic Geopoliticsā and Skyfall
- The Evolution of M in the Latest Bond Franchise Instalments: Skyfall and Spectre
- James Bond: The Game
- Back Matter