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
Contents
Live and Let Die: The Tarot as Other in the 007 Universe
Joyce Goggin
Licence to Replicate: Never Say Never Again (1983) as 007’s
Lesson in Adaptation Studies
Wieland Schwanebeck
Thailand, Highland and Secret Island: Landscape and Power
in Bond Films
Tim Waterman
James 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
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).
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.