James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy
| Editor | Michele Brittany |
| Foreword by | Rob Weiner |
| Afterword by | Trevor Sewell |
| Publisher | McFarland |
| About/Subject | James Bond |
| Format | Soft cover |
| Language | English |
| Pages / Font | 277 pages |
| ISBN | 978-0-7864-7793-7 |
| Chapters | Acknowledgments ix Foreword (Robert G. Weiner) 1 Introduction 5 Part One. Film Japan’s 1960s Spy Boom: Bond Meets Imperial Nostalgia (Michael Baskett) 10 "Permission to kill": Exploring Italy’s 1960s Eurospy Phenomenon, Impact and Legacy (Nicholas Diak) 32 Subverting the Bond-Canon in Madame Sin and Se tutte le donne del mondo (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns) 47 Nation and Action: The Case of the Bollywood Spy Thriller (Ipshita Nath and Anubhav Pradhan) 62 Part Two. Television Mr. Bond’s Neighborhood: Domesticating the Superspy for American Television (Cynthia W. Walker) 80 The Undefined Agent, Illya Kuryakin: Making the Russian (In)Visible in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Thomas M. Barrett) 103 Who, Doctor Who: 007’s Influence on the Pertwee Era of Doctor Who (John Vohlidka) 121 Refashioning James Bond as an American Secret Agent: Scarecrow and Mrs. King, 1983-1987 (Christine D. Myers) 140 Part Three. Literature Super-Spies Face the Collective Shadow of the Cold War in Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT (Hannah Means-Shannon) 162 Flirting with Bond: Or How I Created My Sexy Female Secret Agent (K.A. Laity) 181 Part Four. Lifestyle Modelling Bond: The Cultural Perception of James Bond on the Eve of the Eon Production Films (Edward Biddulph) 194 Derek Flint, Matt Helm, and the Playboy Spy of the 1960s (Brian Patton) 209 Part Five. Reinterpretations Archer: A Spy Parody for the Ears (Ian Dawe) 232 "Sometimes the old ways are the best": Ret-Conning in James Bond Video Games (James Fleury) 247 Afterword (Trevor Sewell) 267 About the Contributors 271 Index 273 |
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