{"title":"An Interview with Anthony Horowitz","authors":"Ian Kinane","doi":"10.24877/JBS.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24877/JBS.49","url":null,"abstract":"James Bond continuation author Anthony Horowitz talks about the differences between the literary and filmic 007, the role of literary criticism, and Bond in the era of #MeToo.","PeriodicalId":173794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of James Bond Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126644216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever: James Bond on Page and Screen (2019), ed. by Oliver Buckton","authors":"Nicholas Levesque","doi":"10.24877/JBS.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24877/JBS.47","url":null,"abstract":"A Review of The Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever: James Bond on Page and Screen (2019), edited by Oliver Buckton.","PeriodicalId":173794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of James Bond Studies","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125482864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Second Evil Empire: The James Bond Series, ''Red China'', and Cold War Cinema","authors":"S. Gehrig","doi":"10.24877/JBS.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24877/JBS.45","url":null,"abstract":"“Red China” became a prominent player in the James Bond films of the 1960s. Recent Cold War scholarship has highlighted the pivotal role of cinema in shaping Western conceptions of the Communist threat during the Cold War period. The James Bond series, in particular, has played an important part in transforming the image of “Red China” from a regional to a global threat in the cultural imagination of the Cold War. This article explores the ways in which the theme of “Red China” entered Western cinema as part of the cultural Cold War, as well as the significant role cinema has played in shaping competing images of China during this conflict.","PeriodicalId":173794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of James Bond Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132612512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"''Melted Your Cold Heart Yet?'' Amatonormative Masculinity in Casino Royale and Spectre","authors":"Colin Görke","doi":"10.24877/JBS.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24877/JBS.44","url":null,"abstract":"The connection between gender and politics has been a central topic of discussion in James Bond scholarship. However, while much of the discourse has focused on the \"Bond Girls\" or on the connection of gender to imperialism and other power relations, the influence of amatonormativity on Bond’s masculinity has not yet been addressed. This article will examine how, in Casino Royale and Spectre, Bond’s masculinity shifts from Normative Masculinity Type 1 to Normative Masculinity Type 2, triggered by the romantic interests of each film, Vesper Lynd and Dr. Madeleine Swann respectively, and further encouraged by the amatonormative expectations of other characters. In this analysis, I argue that amatonormativity is a driving force in the Bond franchise’s promotion of increasingly conservative values regarding gender and relationships.","PeriodicalId":173794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of James Bond Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129892189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fish Out of Water: Crises of Masculinity and Environmentality in ''The Hildebrand Rarity''","authors":"M. Griffiths","doi":"10.24877/JBS.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24877/JBS.42","url":null,"abstract":"Critical examination of Ian Fleming’s James Bond fiction has so far concentrated on its Cold War political context, and little has been written about the author’s engagement with the natural environment. However, his 1960 short story \"The Hildebrand Rarity\" is a valuable, early illustration of writing ecological crisis at the moment environmentalism is coming into being in its modern form. By reading the story ecocritically, this article will identify the resources that genre fiction offers for representing such crises, as well as the problems it raises. Comparison with Rachel Carson’s 1962 nonfiction work Silent Spring will help elucidate the techniques that environmental writing exploits to achieve global resonance. The article reads the story in terms of incident, gender relations, international relations, and the ecosystem in order to explain the peculiarity of James Bond’s lack of agency in this narrative, which is shown to evidence a twinned anxiety about the environment and the impotence of British masculinity in the Cold War era. In failing to resolve the problem of Bond’s inaction, Fleming’s text inadvertently dramatises the helplessness of the contemporary reader to engage meaningfully with environmental crisis.","PeriodicalId":173794,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of James Bond Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126581534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}