Description
Book SynopsisBeginning with
Casino Royale (2006) and ending with
No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change. While focus is often placed on individual actions and institutional policies and practices, it is important to recognize the role that culture plays within these systems. Mainstream film is not simply ''mindless'' entertainment but a key part of a global cultural industry that naturalizes and normalizes power structures.Engaging with these issues,
Resisting James Bond is a multidisciplinary collection that explores inequality and oppression in the world of 007 through a range of critical and theoretical approaches. The chapters explore the embodiment and disembodiment of power and privilege across the formal, narrative, cultur
Trade ReviewAn interrogative, urgent edition to the expanding field of Bond scholarship, Lisa Funnell and Christoph Lindner's
Resisting James Bond takes the Daniel Craig
oeuvre as a whole and offers an overarching yet thoroughly comprehensive take on the actor's five-film tenure
vis a vis a number of original and inventive chapter topics. A rare scholarly treat. * Ian Kinane, General Editor, International Journal of James Bond Studies, University of Roehampton, UK *
This is a thought-provoking collection which, in challenging the identification of mainstream cinema with mindless entertainment, delves deep into the problematic representation of social injustice and oppression within the longest franchise in film history. Re-assessing James Bond’s Craig era against the global rise of social and political unrest of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the collection’s interdisciplinary essays interrogate the power structures embodied by the world’s most iconic fictional secret agent at a crucial moment in the 007 series. * Monica Germanà, Reader in Gothic and Contemporary Studies at the University of Westminster, UK *
Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword: Bond is Dead. Long Live 007. Marwan M. Kraidy (Northwestern University Qatar) Acknowledgements Introduction: Resisting James Bond in the Daniel Craig Era
Lisa Funnell (Mohawk College, Canada) and Christoph Lindner (University College London, UK) Part 1: Embodiment 1. James Bond, Environmental Injustice, and “Slow Violence” in the Craig Era
Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna, Austria) 2. “Do You Expect Me to Talk?”: Bond the Torture Critic
Ron E. Hassner (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 3. The Thrusting Tip of the Spy Business: Discovering Resistance in the Modern Moneypennys
Colin Burnett (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) 4. Highland Rape: Scotland’s Traumatic Past in
Skyfall Mary M. Burke (University of Connecticut, USA) 5. “Do You Consider Your Employment to be Psychologically Stressful?”: Gender, Trauma, and Resilience in Daniel Craig’s James Bond
Bridget E. Keown (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Part 2: Disembodiment 6. For Your Servers Only: Surveillance and Infonationalism in Craig-era Bond
Kathryn Hendrickson (University of Michigan, USA) and John Brick (Marquette University, USA) 7. Specters of Capitalism: Globalization in the Craig-Era Bond Films
Milo Sweedler (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 8. Bond, Race and Coloniality: No Time to Die(versify)…
Harshad Keval (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) 9. License to Urbicide: Defusing Bond’s Acts of Terrorism for a New Era
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Afterword: 007 and Ableism Dr Lisa Funnell (Mohawk College, Canada) Contributor List Index
