[Commlist] Call for Papers: Cinematic Bond at 60: National and International Perspectives

*Call for Papers *

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*_Cinematic Bond at 60: National and International Perspectives _*

A History Research Group Symposium

*_Bournemouth University (Online), 4March 2022 _*

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*Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Spicer (University of the West of 
England) *

In 1962 the first James Bond film,/Dr No/(Terence Young) was released. 
The film was a huge financial success for EON productions, catapulted 
Sean Connery to lifelong stardom and started a period of Bondmania that 
lasted for most of the 1960s. As a cultural icon and cultural 
phenomenon, James Bond and the Bond film have become a globally 
recognised brand.

The films have been widely analysed for their spectacle, their often 
problematic engagement with masculinity, gender relations and cultural 
appropriation as well as the ideological implications of how they engage 
with their backdrop of social and geopolitical change across the 
twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With 2022 marking 60 years of the 
cinematic Bond and the latest instalment,/No Time to Die/(Cary 
Fukunaga), due (allegedly) for release in October 2021, critical 
reflections on this ongoing franchise are relevant and timely.

This one-day online symposium, hosted by the History Research Group at 
Bournemouth University, will offer delegates the opportunity to discuss 
and interrogate the Bond franchise across diverse concepts. We are 
especially keen for scholars from outside of the United Kingdom to bring 
international and transnational perspectives to the character of Bond 
and the films. Likely topics include but are not restricted to:

  * Gender
  * Class
  * Race and ethnicity
  * Imperialism and post-imperialism
  * Colonialism and post-colonialism
  * Cold War and/or Cold War II
  * Stars and stardom
  * Fashion/style/aesthetics
  * Music and/or sound design
  * Adaptation/adoption/appropriation
  * Fans and fandom
  * Audiences
  * Reviews and reception
  * Marketing and merchandise
Delegates will be invited to submit their papers for an intended edited 
collection to be published in the/Routledge Studies of Espionage and 
Culture/series.

We seek proposals for 20-minute papers, or for pre-constituted panels of 
three or four papers, that engage with any aspects of the above 
topic.Abstracts of no more than 300 words, along with a short 
biographical note, should be submitted for peer review to:

Dr Laura Crossley:(lcrossley /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(lcrossley /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)>

by*29October 2021*.




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