Overview
- Presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of James Bond, ranging across media
- Offers a particular emphasis on adaptation - the process of bringing Bond to the screen
- Discusses Bond from a wealth of new perspectives, spanning production to reception
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“This collection demonstrates, seemingly against the odds, why James Bond has refused to die. Jeremy Strong has assembled leading scholars from different fields to view the spy from a range of perspectives: from the novels, films, games, re-inventions, spin-offs, sexual politics, the myth of British superiority, the decline of empire and even food. Strong’s collection proves, beyond a doubt, that Bond in here to stay in academia as well as in popular culture.” (Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: James Bond Uncovered
Editors: Jeremy Strong
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76123-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76122-0Published: 15 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09408-9Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76123-7Published: 29 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 306
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: British Cinema and TV, Adaptation Studies, British Culture