James Bond Uncovered

Abstract

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. Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction; The Many Casinos Royale; The Rise of the Films; A 'Bondian' Formula; Typing Bond; The End of the Beginning; Works Cited; You Only Live Twice: A Tale of Two Bonds; 007.1-2; Origins; Class; Gender; Nation; 007.1; Works Cited; James Bond's Forgotten Beginnings: Television Adaptations; Bond on TV: Casino Royale; The Television Origins of Dr. No; Bond and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; Works Cited; James Bond: International Man of Gastronomy?; Welcome, Mr. Bond; Whose Word Is Bond?; Your Choice, Mr. Bond. Best of BritishBond on France; Bond Stateside; The Caribbean and Elsewhere; Just Desserts?; Works Cited; Bond Resounding; Acoustical Underpinnings; Sound Objects: Real and Imagined; Death Rays and Laser Beams; Sounds Recycled; Bond Concrète; Bond and Aural Architecture; Bibliography; Breaking Bond's Balls: A Feminist Re-Reading Ian Fleming; Entering the Text; Feminists Reading Bond; Breaking Bond's Balls; Reading as a Woman/Reading Woman as Bond; The Romance of Bond; A Woman's Place in the Bond Universe; Conclusion: Taking It Like a Man; Works Cited; Mess and Meta-Mess: Casino Royale (1967). ProductionAdaptation and Anti-adaptation; Cult from Chaos; The Look of Love; Works Cited; Live and Let Die: The Tarot as Other in the 007 Universe; Introduction; A Stand-Out Bond Narrative; Non-traditional Communication Networks; Race; Otherness; Englishness; Conclusion; Works Cited; Films Cited; Licence to Replicate: Never Say Never Again (1983) as 007's Lesson in Adaptation Studies; James Bond's Adaptation History; Period 1: 1962-1973; Period 2: 1974-1987; Period 3: 1989 to Present; Resurrection; An Attorneys' Game: The Making of Never Say Never Again. When the Same Thing Happens to the Same Guy Twice: Never Say Never AgainFilmography; Works Cited; Thailand, Highland and Secret Island: Landscape and Power in Bond Films; Landscape; Capitalism and Imperialism; Tourism, Class, and Labour; Liquid Modern Bond; Works Cited; Films; James Bond and the End of Empire; Works Cited; The Resilient Agent: James Bond, 'Nostalgic Geopolitics' and Skyfall; Daniel Craig's Bond; Bond and the Testing of Resilience; Redemption and Resilience; Ostracising Resilience; Preparing for the Looming Attack; Resilience and Flag-Waving Nostalgia; Conclusion; Works Cited. The Evolution of M in the Latest Bond Franchise Instalments: Skyfall and SpectreWorks Cited; Interview; Films and TV; Webography; James Bond: The Game; The Arcade Years; GoldenEye 007; The Player of Games; Meet Mr. Bond; For Your Eyes Only: Text-Based Adventure Games; Conclusion; References; Index.