From Blofeld to Moneypenny

From Blofeld to Moneypenny
Author: Steven Gerrard
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-03-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 183867165X

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Since its inception, 007 has captured the 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.

From Blofeld to Moneypenny

From Blofeld to Moneypenny
Author: Steven Gerrard
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-03-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1838671668

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Since its inception, 007 has captured the 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.

The Blofeld Trilogy

The Blofeld Trilogy
Author: Ian Fleming
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780143117902

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service: High in the Swiss Alps, a man hunts respectability with all the cunning that made him Europe's most ruthless criminal. Nothing is to stand in Ernst Stavro Blofeld's way, certainly not 007.

Resisting James Bond

Resisting James Bond
Author: Christoph Lindner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501388282

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Beginning 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, cultural and geopolitical elements that define the revisionist-reversionist world of Daniel Craig's Bond.

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism
Author: Katja Franko
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 019287411X

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Inhabitants of Medellín, Colombia, suffered from the war-like violence perpetrated by drug cartels and other actors in the 1980s and 1990s; thousands died, including innocent civilians, judges, and journalists, many more were injured and left with psychological trauma. Three decades later, however, transnational audio-visual corporations such as Netflix have transformed the traumatic memories into entertainment and the main perpetrator, Pablo Escobar, was converted into a brand. While global audiences learn about Escobar's life and myth, his victims's stories fade into oblivion. Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences of commercial exploitation of the city's violent past for victims of mass drug violence, and for the present nature of the city. To demonstrate the magnitude of the profits made from the legacy of Pablo Escobar, the authors cover a range of topics. Firstly, they describe how the immense popularity of narco-series has caused the city's suffering to be appropriated by commercial forces to entertain global audiences; secondly, they detail the Escobar tours, souvenirs, and artefacts offered by Medellín's tourist industry; and, finally, they expose the less visible profits made by political and social actors who engage in the global mythmaking surrounding Escobar. Through interviews with those directly affected by drug violence, the authors show that these cultural forces have immediate symbolic and material consequences. Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism offers a telling critique of how the global market economy allots uneven narrative power to those engaged in processes of collective memory construction, with the broader aim of addressing an issue that has so far been neglected within criminology, international criminal justice, and victimology: the position of victims of large-scale drug violence. A thoroughly compelling read, this volume will appeal internationally to academics in criminology and victimology, as well as those interested in critical perspectives on Netflix, commercialism, and Colombian history.

A Brief Guide to James Bond

A Brief Guide to James Bond
Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2012-09-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1849018294

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The world's fascination with Bond is unstoppable. James Bond is the greatest British fictional hero of the post-war era. He also has a huge following in the US - and around the world - as a legendary Cold War warrior, and now as a daredevil able to take on the villains of the post-Cold War world. The Bond books are all in print. Today, Sebastian Faulks is writing new stories while Charlie Higson is writing children's versions. In this comprehensive guide to Ian Fleming, the books, the films and the world that was created out of 007, Nigel Cawthorne uncovers Bond's allure. It comes with special sections on the main characters - Q, M, the Bond Girls, and the women who first inspired them; the cars, and the incomparable baddies. It will be the ideal gift for fans and aficionados alike and will be published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of DOCTOR NO; the new film is scheduled for autumn 2012.

The Moneypenny Diaries

The Moneypenny Diaries
Author: Kate Westbrook
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008-05-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312383183

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Miss Jane Moneypenny, personal secretary to Secret Service chief M and colleague and confidante of James Bond, breaks the first rule of espionage. Unbeknownst to anyone, she keeps a diary charting her innermost thoughts and state secrets, including her efforts to find her father who inexplicably disappeared in action during World War II.

Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner

Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner
Author: Amanda DiGioia
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-08-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839829400

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Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner is a comparative, gendered analysis study of Ridley Scott’s contributions to the genre of science fiction and horror cinema, showcasing how patriarchal and gendered expectations regarding women, usually associated with the past, still run rampant.

James Bond Will Return

James Bond Will Return
Author: Claire Hines
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2024-01-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231556969

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For over six decades, James Bond has been a fixture of global culture, universally recognizable by the films’ combination of action set pieces, sex, political intrigue, and outrageous gadgetry. But as the British Empire entered the final stages of collapse, as the Cold War wound down and the “War on Terror” began, and as the visions of masculinity and femininity the series presented began to strike many viewers as outdated, the Bond formula has adapted to the changing times. Spanning the franchise’s entire history, from Sean Connery’s iconic swagger to Daniel Craig’s rougher, more visceral interpretation of the superspy, James Bond Will Return offers both academic readers and fans a comprehensive view of the series’s transformations against the backdrop of real-world geopolitical intrigue and sweeping social changes. Leading scholars consider each of the twenty-five films in the series, showing how and why Bond has changed and what elements of the formula have stood the test of time. Each chapter examines a single film from a distinct position, giving readers a full picture of the variety and breadth of the longest-running series in cinema history. Close formal readings; production histories; tracings of the political, social, and historical influences; analyses of the series’ use of then-new filmmaking technologies; reflections on the star personas that have been built around the character—these and many more approaches combine to produce a wide-ranging view of the James Bond film franchise. Essential reading for Bond scholars and aficionados alike, James Bond Will Return brings out the many surprising complexities of an iconic character.

Gender and Female Villains in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives

Gender and Female Villains in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives
Author: Natalie Le Clue
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2022-02-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1801175667

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For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives of 21st Century media.