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James Bond uncovered / edited by Jeremy Strong.

Contributor(s): Strong, Jeremy [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culturePublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Description: 306 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783319761220 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Bond, James (Fictitious character) | James Bond films -- History and criticism | Spy television programs -- History and criticism | Spy stories -- History and criticism | Spies in literature | Spies in popular culture | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.4'375 Summary: 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.
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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.

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