[Commlist] Open Access Publication | The Cultural Life of James Bond: Specters of 007

/The Cultural Life of James Bond: Specters of 007/ is now available in 
Open Access, just in time for the release of /No Time to Die/ on 
September 30.

https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048532117/the-cultural-life-of-james-bond

The collection of fifteen essays can be accessed per chapter on JSTOR, 
or as a pdf of the book on OAPEN:

JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1850jbk 
<https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1850jbk>
OAPEN: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49986 
<https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49986>


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The release of /No Time To Die/ in 2020 heralds the arrival of the 
twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series. Since the 
release of /Dr. No/ in 1962, the cinematic James Bond has expedited the 
transformation of Ian Fleming’s literary creation into an icon of 
western popular culture that has captivated audiences across the globe 
by transcending barriers of ideology, nation, empire, gender, race, 
ethnicity, and generation. /The Cultural Life of James Bond: Specters of 
007/ untangles the seemingly perpetual allure of the Bond phenomenon by 
looking at the non-canonical texts and contexts that encompass the 
cultural life of James Bond. Chronicling the evolution of the British 
secret agent over half a century of political, social, and cultural 
permutations, the fifteen chapters examine the brand of Bond beyond the 
film series and across media platforms while understanding these 
ancillary texts and contexts as contested sites of negotiation with the 
Eon franchise.


Table of Contents:

Part I   Beyond Britain: The Transnational Configuration of the James 
Bond Phenomenon

    1 The Forgotten Bond: The CBS Production of /Casino Royale/ (1954) –
    James Chapman
    2  A Socialist 007: East European Spy Dramas in the Early James Bond
    Era – Mikołaj Kunicki
    3 From Indianization to Globalization: Tracking Bond in Bollywood  -
    Ajay Gehlawat
    4 The Dead Are Alive: The Exotic Non-Place of the Bondian Runaway
    Production – Melis Behlil, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, and Jaap Verheul
    5 Bond Rebooted: The Transnational Appeal of the Daniel Craig James
    Bond Films – Andrew Higson and Huw D Jones


Part II  Beyond the Hero: The Cultural Politics of 007

    6 Paradoxical Masculinity: James Bond, Icon of Failure – Toby Miller
    7 Femininity, Seriality, and Collectivity: Rethinking the Bond Girl
    – Moya Luckett
    8 Market Forces: James Bond, Women of Color, and the Eastern Bazaar
    – Lorrie Palmer
    9 Shaken, Not Stirred Britishness: James Bond, Race, and the
    Transnational Imaginary – Anna Everett
    10 Global Agency between Bond and Bourne: /Skyfall/ and James Bond
    in Comparison to the /Jason Bourne/ Film Series – Seung-hoon Jeong



Part III Beyond the Films: The Transmediality of the James Bond Franchise

    11 James Bond and Art Cinema – Christopher Holliday
    12 Branding 007: Title Sequences in the James Bond Films –
    Jan-Christopher Horak
    13 "Unlike Men, The Diamonds Linger:" Bassey and Bond Beyond the
    Theme Song – Meenasarani Linde Murugan
    14 /Skyfall/ and Global Casino Culture – Joyce Goggin
    15 Three Dimensions of Bond: Adaptive Fidelity and Fictional
    Coherence in the Videogame Adaptations of /GoldenEye/ – Ian Bryce
    Jones and Chris Carloy


Endorsements and Reviews:

"This new collection gathers together high-quality, well-researched and 
cogently written chapters, and includes plenty of fresh approaches and 
new insights from a range of scholars working in complementary fields. 
[...] Pleasingly arranged and critically astute, the book offers some 
fascinating new perspectives that extend Bond scholarship. Every 
‘Bondologist’ should own a copy."

- Llewella Chapman, /Journal of British Cinema and Television/, Volume 
18, Issue 2, April 2021


"/The Cultural Life of James Bond/'s unique array of viewpoints should 
serve as an inspiration for scholars in the field, while simultaneously 
offering future researchers a number of alternative angles through which 
Bond can be interpreted."

- James Shelton, /International Journal of James Bond Studies/, Volume 
4, Issue 1, Spring 2021


“One of the permanent gains we owe to "new Bond studies" is the notion 
that James Bond is far more mobile a signifier than previous generations 
of critics imagined. /The Cultural Life of James Bond/ makes an 
invaluable contribution to this widened view of 007. Situating the films 
in a range of new contexts, this trove of essays uncovers previously 
ignored and even unexpected connections between Bond and such phenomena 
as black casting and performance, postfeminism, modernism, transnational 
geographies and taste cultures, and the development of film, television, 
video game, and music industries across the globe. This book doesn’t 
just remind us that Bond matters. It reminds us that Bond scholarship 
matters."

- Colin Burnett, Washington University in St. Louis, author of /The 
Invention of Robert Bresson: The Auteur and His Market/ (2017)


"This book brings together a supremely talented group of scholars to 
interrogate 007 in new and innovative ways. The result is a fresh and 
timely re-examination of the James Bond phenomenon's complicated 
relationship with popular culture, global media, and transnational 
geopolitics. /The Cultural Life of James Bond/ is a must-read for 007 
scholars and fans alike."

- Christoph Lindner, University College London, editor of /The James 
Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader/ (2009)


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