From Blofeld to Moneypenny : gender in James Bond / Steven Gerrard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerrard, Steven, author.

Series:

Emerald studies in popular culture and gender

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James Bond films.

Bond, James (Fictitious character)--In literature.

Bond, James.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Half Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

About the Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

References

Part 1: Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Chapter 1: 'Keeping the British End Up': James Bond and the Varieties of Britishness

Chapter 2 : The Patriotic Spy: For Queen, Empire and Dry Martinis

The Patriotic Spy: For Queen, Empire and Dry Martinis

The Paradox of 'White' Patriotism

Inherently Masculine Patriotism

Imperial Locations

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Adapting the Male Hero: The Comic Strip Adventures of James Bond

Bond as Comics Icon: A Brief Chronology

Bond at the Daily Express

The Post-Fleming Series

The Dark Horse Revamp

Dynamite's Bond

Some Conclusions

Chapter 4 : Seven James Bonds at Casino Royale

Fleming's Casino Royale and Bond's Masculinity

Casino Royale and Segmenting Bond's Masculinity

Performing and Being the Different Bonds

Everybody's Dead

Chapter 5 : 'Fitting Fleming's Hero like a Savile Row Suit': The Tailoring of James Bond

Anthony Sinclair

Dimitro 'Dimi' Major

Cyril Castle, Angelo Vitucci and Douglas Hayward

Stefano Ricci

Brioni

Tom Ford

Part 2: Bond Girls, Bond Women

Chapter 6 : The Soviet Woman in Bond Films

The Gendered Geopolitics of Bond

Bond's Virility and the Allure of the West

Chapter 7: Babes and Bullets: The Representation of Gender in Bond Themes and Title Sequences

Chapter 8 : Her Word Was Her Bond: Johanna Harwood, Bond's First Woman Screenwriter

Chapter 9 : Her Majesty's Secret Service: Judi Dench's M and Her Monarchial Tenure

Our 'M'an in England.

'Look Upon Your Work Mother': Problematic Motherhood and Female Authority

'Any Thug Can Kill. I Want You to Take Your Ego Out of the Equation, and to Judge the Situation Dispassionately': Emotion as Weakness

'I Think You're a Sexist, Misogynist Dinosaur …Whose Boyish Charms, though Lost on Me, Obviously Appealed to that Young Girl I Sent Out to Evaluate You': Magisterial Authority in Language and Address

'Take the Bloody Shot!': the Importance of Duty Above Personal Happiness

Conclusion: 'Knowing Who to Trust is Everything in this Business'

Chapter 10 : Moneypenny: Jane or Eve? Ethos, Pathos and the Woman Behind All Bonds

Moneypenny's Literary Origins: Jane

Moneypenny's Cinematic Evolution: Eve

Moneypenny's Political Representation: Behind M's Desk

Moneypenny and the Bond Girls: Live and Let Them Die

Moneypenny's Legacy: A Whole New - Black and Beautiful - Bond

part 3: Nobody Does It Better

Chapter 11 : Loaded Magazines: James Bond and British Men's Mags in the Brosnan Era

Framing Bond for the Mid-1990s: The 'Sexist, Misogynist Dinosaur' Meets Men's Mags

Licence to Leer: Men's Mags and Bond Girls

Buying into Bond: Negotiating Consumer Masculinity

Chapter 12 : Blofeld

Blofeld

Villains

Bond Villains

Chapter 13 : 'Standard Operating Procedure. Boys with Toys': Hackers, Gamers and the Hegemony of Play in GoldenEye

'This is Not One of Your Games, Boris': Tech as Asset or Enemy?

'Half of Everything is Luck, James': Bond's Epic Hero Versus the Contingency of the Game System

'He Wouldn't Know a Woman if One Came up and Sat on His Head': Boris Grishenko and the Hegemony of Play

Conclusion: 'You're Such a Geek!'

Media.

Chapter 14 : Miss Moneypenny and the Friend-zone: The Indispensable and Sexually Unavailable 'Bond Girl'

Fans Actively Engage with their Fandom

Fans Partly 'Own' the Franchise

Fans and Participatory Culture

Methodology

Analysis and Discussion

The Friend-zone and Sexual Unavailability

The Perception of Sexual Harassment

'Fairytale Ending'

Miss Moneypenny's Appearance

'Cock-blocking'

Chapter 15: 'Celebrating 10 Years of Idris Elba Becoming James Bond Any Second Now': Fandom, Ownership and the Alt-Right

'The Writing's on the Wall': Idris as Bond? Fans and the Alt-Right Response

'But It's Canon!': Tradition, Authorial Intent and Canonical Fidelity

Brand 007: Bond in a Trumpian World

No Time to Die

Select References

Select Bibliography

Journals and Other Printed/Online Sources (Selection)

Select Webography

James Bond Filmography in Order:

Song Details (in Order of Film Release)

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781838671655

183867165X