James Bond and Popular Culture

Michele Brittany is the book review editor for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and is the co-chair of the Ann Radcliffe Conference held in conjunction with Horror Writers Association’s annual Stokercon. She lives in Glendale, Arizona.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword (Robert G. Weiner)IntroductionPart One. FilmJapan’s 1960s Spy Boom: Bond Meets Imperial Nostalgia (Michael Baskett)“Permission to kill”: Exploring Italy’s 1960s Eurospy Phenomenon, Impact and Legacy (Nicholas Diak)Subverting the ­Bond-Canon in Madame Sin and Se tutte le donne del mondo (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns)Nation and Action: The Case of the Bollywood Spy Thriller (Ipshita Nath and Anubhav Pradhan)Part Two. TelevisionMr. Bond’s Neighborhood: Domesticating the Superspy for American Television (Cynthia W. Walker)The Undefined Agent, Illya Kuryakin: Making the Russian (In)Visible in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Thomas M. Barrett)Who, Doctor Who: 007’s Influence on the Pertwee Era of Doctor Who (John Vohlidka)Refashioning James Bond as an American Secret Agent: Scarecrow and Mrs. King, 1983–1987 (Christine D. Myers) Part Three. LiteratureSuper-Spies Face the Collective Shadow of the Cold War in Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT (Hannah ­Means-Shannon)Flirting with Bond: Or How I Created My Sexy Female Secret Agent (K.A. Laity)Part Four. LifestyleModelling Bond: The Cultural Perception of James Bond on the Eve of the Eon Production Films (Edward Biddulph)Derek Flint, Matt Helm, and the Playboy Spy of the 1960s (Brian Patton)Part Five. ReinterpretationsArcher: A Spy Parody for the Ears (Ian Dawe)“Sometimes the old ways are the best”: ­Ret-Conning in James Bond Video Games (James Fleury)Afterword (Trevor Sewell)About the ContributorsIndex

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