Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Copyright Acknowledgements
Select Bond Chronology
Introduction / Christoph Lindner
Part I: Reading 007
1 The Moments of Bond / Tony Bennett & Janet Woollacott
2 Narrative Structures in Fleming / Umberto Eco
3 Licensed to Look: James Bond and the Heroism of Consumption / Michael Denning
4 Criminal Vision and the Ideology of Detection in Fleming’s 007 Series / Christoph Lindner
5 ‘Entertainment for Men’: Uncovering the Playboy Bond / Claire Hines
Part II: Screening 007
6 A Licence to Thrill / James Chapman
7 The James Bond Films: Conditions of Production / Janet Woollacott
8 Creating a Bond Market: Selling John Barry’s Soundtracks and Theme
Songs / Jeff Smith
9 Doctor No: Bonding Britishness to Racial Sovereignty / Cynthia Baron
10 Hard-Wear: The Millennium, Technology, and Brosnan’s Bond / Martin Willis
11 Body Politics and Casino Royale: Gender and (Inter)National Security / Colleen M. Tremonte and Linda Racioppi
Part 3: Re-thinking 007
12 ‘Under the very skirts of Britannia’: Re-reading Women in the James Bond Novels / Christine Bold
13 Pussy Galore / Elisabeth Ladenson
14 Britain’s Last Line of Defence: Miss Moneypenny and the Desperations of
Filmic Feminism / Tara Brabazon
15 Dial ‘M’ for Metonym: Universal Exports, M’s Office Space and Empire /
Paul Stock
16 Kamasutra Bond-ing / Ajay Gehlawat
17 James Bond’s Penis / Toby Miller
18 ‘The World Has Changed’: Bond in the 1990s - and Beyond? / Jim Leach
19 Shaken, Stirred, Pixellated: Video Gaming as Bond / Stefan Hall
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Christoph Lindner is Professor and Chair of English Literature at the University of Amsterdam.

Reviews

"Christoph Lindner's anthology is not only the ideal textbook for university or college courses on 007 but also an excellent case study in popular culture" Christoph Laught, University of Liverpool