Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword: Is the World Enough For James Bond?
Monica Germanà
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
