Description
Book SynopsisThe world of
James Bond is complex and ever growing. The British secret agent started off life as a semi-fictional, part-biographical character in Ian Fleming's 1953 novel,
Casino Royale. Since then, 007 has captured the minds and hearts of a worldwide audience, and the franchise is now available over multiple media platforms, including movie, comic strips, games, graphic novels and fashion statements.
This edited collection examines the role that gender has played across the platforms that the James Bond franchise now occupies. Each chapter investigates gender-approaches through a variety of case studies, including Bond, his boss M, and Miss Moneypenny, the songs and title sequences, the villains, computer games, 'Lad's Mags', and the fashions of the era. Looking beyond the Bond Girl, expert editor Steven Gerrard brings together a cast of contributors that investigate not only femininity, but also masculinity when it comes to the world's best-known agent - a man with a license to kill.
In a rapidly changing world where gender boundaries are being eroded, this edited collection investigates the changing and challenging roles that gender has undergone in the franchise. By using a series of case studies, and employing theoretical modes linked to close analysis, each chapter clearly demonstrates
how and
why the world of James Bond is important in reflecting the changing gender roles within modern society.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Steven Gerrard Part One: Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Chapter 1. Keeping the British end up: James Bond and the varieties of Britishness;
James Chapman Chapter 2. The Patriotic Spy: For Queen, Empire and Dry Martinis;
Jennie Lewis-Vidler Chapter 3. Adapting the male hero: the comic strip adventures of James Bond;
Robert Shail Chapter 4. Seven James Bonds at Casino Royale;
Wickham & Clayton Chapter 5. Fitting Fleming's hero like a Savile Row suit: The tailoring of James Bond;
Llewella Chapman Part Two Bond Girls, Bond Women Chapter 6. The Soviet Woman in Bond Films;
Helena Bassil-Morozow Chapter 7. Babes and Bullets: The representation of gender in Bond themes and title sequences;
Shelley O'Brien Chapter 8. Her Word Was Her Bond: Johanna Harwood, Bond's First Woman Screenwriter;
Melanie Williams Chapter 9. Her Majesty's Secret Service: Judi Dench's M and her monarchial tenure;
Charlotte AllanChapter 10. Moneypenny: Jane or Eve? Ethos, pathos and the woman behind all Bonds;
Octavio Aragão Part Three: Nobody Does It Better Chapter 11. Loaded Magazines: James Bond and British men's mags in the Brosnan era;
Claire Hines and Stephanie Jones Chapter 12. Blofeld
Steven Gerrard Chapter 13.
Standard Operating Procedure. Boys with Toys: Hackers, Gamers and the Hegemony of Play in GoldenEye;
Dean Bowman Chapter 14. Miss Moneypenny and the Friend-Zone: The Indispensable and Sexually Unavailable 'Bond Girl';
Janelle Vermaak and Natalie Le Clue Chapter 15. Celebrating 10 years of Idris Elba becoming James Bond any second now: fandom, ownership, and the alt-right;
Renee Middlemost
