James Bond Uncovered
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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.
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"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)
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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).