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Global James Bond

(Re)Imagining and Transplanting a Popular Culture Icon
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Global James Bond: (Re) Imagining and Transplanting a Popular Culture Icon focuses on the ambivalent yet fascinating interplay between the global and the local in the longest running film franchise in history. It explores how James Bond established itself as a global standard for action-spy film making and even as a minor global cinema (i.e. imagining), and hot the franchise subsequently inspired a series of genre bending, blending, and breaking in local visual and some literary contexts (i.e. reimagining and transplanting). The chapters in this collection consider how the world is envisaged in the official series and subsequently reinterpreted on local and regional levels and how investments with alternative meanings might run counter to the dominant representational and geo-political logics of the novels and filmic texts. Global James Bond is a starting point for further conversation and exchange over an extraordinary film franchise.
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. Lisa Funnell is associate dean of creative industries at Mohawk College.
Foreword: Is the World Enough For James Bond? Monica Germana Acknowledgments Introduction: Global James Bond Lisa Funnell and Klaus Dodds Part I: Interplay of Global and Local Chapter 1. James Bond a la Mexicana David Wilt Chapter 2. James Bonds (OSS 117 and C.I.D. Shankar) in the Global South: Orientalism, "Mad Scientists," and Technology Swarnavel Eswaran Chapter 3. Nostalgic Humor and Cultural Memory in the Remakes of Hong Kong Jane Bond Films Jessica Siu-yin Yeung Chapter 4. Contrasting Sensibilities: Golgo 13, Japanese Masculinity, and Differing Expectations of the Bond Archetype Aaron D. Horton Part II: Creative and Consumptive Geographies Chapter 5. Assassins, Cigars, and Revolution: James Bond's Cuba Antii Korpisaari Chapter 6. Bond in Japan: International Pride, National Disgrace, and Glo/Cal Intricacies Rea Amit Chapter 7. The Women Are Not Enough: Colonial Consumption, Universal Exports, and Family Lineage in OHMSS Lisa Funnell Chapter 8. The (Mediterranean) World Is Not Enough: Locating Europe's Global South in For Your Eyes Only Paul Michael Johnson Afterword: "Take Me Around the World One More Time" James Page About the Contributors
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