The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.28 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442276118 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 218 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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His well-informed and well-argued analysis provides a fascinating history of the enduring and evolving appeal of James Bond.. Bond was, and still is, an important aspect of post–World War II popular culture throughout the Western world. Class, place, gender, violence, sex, race—all are themes that Black scrutinizes through the ongoing shifts in characterization and plot. This was particularly so after Hollywood launched the filmic Bond, thus making him not only a character designed for the American film market but also a world product and a figure of globalization. Black argues that the Bond novels—the Fleming books as well as the often-neglected novels authored by others after Fleming died in 1964—and films drew on current fears in order to reduce the implausibility of the villains and their villainy.The novels and films also pr
Introduced to the public in the 1953 novel Casino Royale, Bond was the creation of Ian Fleming, an officer in British naval intelligence during WWII. (Booklist)Jeremy Black is a scintillating writer who understands our culture brilliantly—his is the definitive take on Britain's Greatest Spy (Rt Hon. Naval War College) . This is a worthy addition to the ever-growing literature about the world’s most famous superspy. The most notable change in the Bond series, especially in the movies, was the shift from realism to larger-than-life spectacle; the evil and completely fictional SPECTRE, for example, replaced Fleming’s original villainous spy organization, SMERSH, which had been based on a real Russian intelligence group. The villains, whether the Communist Le Chiffre in the novel (but not the screen versions of) Casino Royale, the mafia in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), or the rogue agent of the post–Cold War Golde
Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008. Jeremy Black graduated from Cambridge University with a Starred First and did graduate work at Oxford University before teaching at the University of Durham and then at the University of Exeter, where he is professor of history. He is a senior fellow of the Fo