Global James Bond

Lisa Funnell is associate dean of creative industries at Mohawk College.Klaus Dodds is executive dean of the school of life sciences and environment and professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a fellow of the academy of social sciences.

• Foreword: Is the World Enough For James Bond?Monica GermanàAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global James BondLisa Funnell and Klaus DoddsPart I: Interplay of Global and LocalChapter 1. James Bond a la MexicanaDavid WiltChapter 2. James Bonds (OSS 117 and C.I.D. Shankar) in the Global South: Orientalism, “MadScientists,” and TechnologySwarnavel EswaranChapter 3. Nostalgic Humor and Cultural Memory in the Remakes of Hong Kong Jane BondFilmsJessica Siu-yin YeungChapter 4. Contrasting Sensibilities: Golgo 13, Japanese Masculinity, and Differing Expectationsof the Bond ArchetypeAaron D. HortonPart II: Creative and Consumptive GeographiesChapter 5. Assassins, Cigars, and Revolution: James Bond’s CubaAntii KorpisaariChapter 6. Bond in Japan: International Pride, National Disgrace, and Glo/Cal IntricaciesRea AmitChapter 7. The Women Are Not Enough: Colonial Consumption, Universal Exports, and FamilyLineage in OHMSSLisa FunnellChapter 8. The (Mediterranean) World Is Not Enough: Locating Europe’s Global South in ForYour Eyes OnlyPaul Michael JohnsonAfterword: “Take Me Around the World One More Time”James PageAbout the Contributors

A delectable dossier deftly addressing the global dissemination of James Bond, this collection makes a major argument that the Bond franchise is more than merely a minor global cinema. Tracking Bond through an itinerary teeming with unexpected stops, Global James Bond pays visits to Mexico, South India, Hong Kong and Cuba, amongst other locales, to (re)imagine local receptions and (re)readings of the globetrotting spy over the past half century. It is sure to please cosmopolitan Bond aficionados in its focus on the interplay of the global and local.