The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007

Summary:This insightful and entertaining book offers a historian’s perspective on James Bond. Tracing Bond’s evolution since his appearance in 1953, Black follows the fraught course of the final Daniel Craig movie, No Time to Die, looks to the post-Craig years, and considers the continuing cultural significance of Bond in the modern world. The most current and insightful look at the politics and culture of the Bond world as the last Daniel Craig movie hits theaters. This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films. Jeremy Black offers a historian’s interpretation from the perspective of 2020 and the latest Bond film, assessing James Bond in terms of the greatly changing world order of the Bond years—a lifetime that stretches from 1953, when the first novel appeared, to the present. Black argues that the Bond novels—the Fleming books as well as the often-neglected novels authored by others after Fleming died in 1964—and films drew on current fears in order to reduce the implausibility of the villains and their villainy. The novels and films also presented potent images of national character, explored the rapi

Brand: Rowman & Littlefield · Theme: James Bond · UPC: 9781538126363