Revisioning 007 : James Bond and Casino Royale
by Lindner, ChristophFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-06-01
Publisher(s): Columbia Univ Pr
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Summary
Revisioning 007 is a lively collection of newessays on the reinvention of James Bond in the 2006 film Casino Royale, starringDaniel Craig in his first appearance as Agent 007. Treating Casino Royale as a casestudy in popular film culture and as a significant turning point in the 007 series,the book offers innovative readings of the film and its inte-rrelations with theBond franchise, the culture industry and recent developments in cinema, society andworld politics. Essay topics range from the analysis of 007's masochism, voyeurismand hyper-mobility, to the examination of the film's testicular torture scene, thelinks between international politics and high-stakes gambling and the changing roleof the secret agent in a post-9/11 world order.
Author Biography
Christoph Lindner is Professor and Chair of English Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Fictions of Commodity Culture [2003] and editor of the James Bond Phenomenon [2003], Urban Space and Cityscapes [2006] and Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities [2009].
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Select Bond Chronology | p. xiii |
| Introduction: Revisioning 007 | p. 1 |
| Enacting Bond | |
| The History of Casino Royale On (and Off) Screen | p. 11 |
| 'Do I Look Like I Give a Damn?': What's Right About Getting It Wrong in Casino Royale | p. 33 |
| Hardly the Big Picture: The Ellipsis and Narratives of Interruption in Casino Royale | p. 50 |
| It Just Keeps Getting Bigger: James Bond and the Political Economy of Huge | p. 67 |
| Engendering Bond | |
| 'Any Thug Can Kill': Rewriting the Masculine Bond | p. 81 |
| Double-0 Agencies: Femininity, Post-Feminism and the Female Spy | p. 99 |
| Male Masochism in Casino Royale | p. 114 |
| Embodying Bond | |
| Improvisation, Action and Architecture in Casino Royale | p. 131 |
| 'Gallivanting Round the World': Bond, the Gaze and Mobility | p. 144 |
| Bond, Benjamin, Balls: Technologised Masculinity in Casino Royale | p. 159 |
| Bibliography | p. 173 |
| Index | p. 180 |
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