Jeremy Strong is Professor of Literature and Film at the University of West London, UK. He has chaired the Association of Adaptation Studies and is the author of Educated Tastes: Food, Drink and Connoisseur Culture (2011) and the novel Mean Business (2013). 

¿Introduction

Jeremy Strong

You Only Live Twice: A Tale of Two Bonds

Graham Holderness

James Bond's Forgotten Beginnings: Television Adaptations

Jonathan Bignell

James Bond: International Man of Gastronomy?

Jeremy Strong

Bond Resounding

Jonathan Stockdale

Breaking Bond's Balls: A Feminist Re-Reading Ian Fleming

Imelda Whelehan

Mess and Meta-Mess: Casino Royale (1967)

I. Q. Hunter

Contents

Live and Let Die: The Tarot as Other in the 007 Universe

Joyce Goggin

Licence to Replicate: Never Say Never Again (1983) as 007's

Lesson in Adaptation Studies

Wieland Schwanebeck

Thailand, Highland and Secret Island: Landscape and Power

in Bond Films

Tim Waterman

James Bond and the End of Empire

James Chapman

The Resilient Agent: James Bond, 'Nostalgic Geopolitics'

and Skyfall

Klaus Dodds

The Evolution of M in the Latest Bond Franchise Instalments:

Skyfall and Spectre

Lucinda Hobbs

James Bond: The Game

Florian Stephens

Index

This volume brings fresh perspectives to the study of James Bond. With a strong emphasis on the process of Bond's incarnation on screen and his transit across media forms, chapters examine Bond in terms of adaptation, television, computer games, and the original novels. Film nonetheless provides the central focus, with analysis of both the corpus as a whole-from Dr. No to Spectre-and of particular films, from popular and much-discussed movies such as Goldfinger and Skyfall to comparatively under-examined texts such as the 1967 Casino Royale and A View to a Kill. Contributors' expertise and interests encompass such diverse aspects of and approaches to the Bond stories as Sound Design, Empire, Food and Taste, Geo-politics, Feminist re-reading, Tarot, Landscape and Sets.