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Acknowledgments
Introduction: James Bond—Agent of Continuity and Change, by Claire Hines, Terence Mc Sweeney, and Stuart Joy
1. Bond and the New Elizabethans: Tradition and Modernity in Dr. No (1962), by Laura Crossley
2. “A Real Labour of Love, as They Say”: James Bond as a Sexual Plaything in From Russia with Love (1963), by Lucy Bolton
3. The Midas Touch: Eastmancolor, the Bond Franchise, and Goldfinger (1964), by Keith M. Johnston
4. The Popular Geopolitics of Thunderball (1965): Look Up, Look Down, and Look Everywhere!, by Klaus Dodds
5. Bond in the East: Orientalism and the Exotic in You Only Live Twice (1967), by Robert Shail
6. The Other Fellow: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), by James Chapman
7. Diamonds Are Forever (1971): 007 and Transatlantic States of Emergency, by Ian Scott
8. From Harlem to San Monique: Spatial Dichotomies, Voodoo, and Cultural Identity in Live and Let Die (1973), by Fran Pheasant-Kelly
9. “We All Get Our Jollies One Way or Another”: The Perversity and Pleasure of Christopher Lee in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), by Julie Lobalzo Wright
10. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)—Nobody Does It Better: “Keeping the British End Up” at a Time of National Crisis, by Terence Mc Sweeney
11. Moonraker (1979) and the Canvas of Escapism, by Steven Gerrard
12. The Spectre of Death: Revenge and Retribution in For Your Eyes Only (1981), by Stuart Joy
13. The (Clown) Suited Hero: James Bond, Costume, Gender and Disguise in Octopussy (1983), by Claire Hines
14. Scowls and Cowls: Grace Jones, Costume Design, and A View to a Kill (1985), by Randall Stevens
15. “A Time When Indiscriminating Bed-Hopping Is Definitely Not Advisable”: Safe-Sex References in the UK Press Reception of The Living Daylights (1987), by Stephanie Jones
16. Bond in the New World Orders: Licence to Kill (1989), by Stacey Peebles
17. Cold War Nostalgia, (Geo)Political Progress, and James Bond in Golden Eye (1995), by Tatiana Konrad
18. Bond by the Numbers: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), by Llewella Chapman
19. Bond at the Crossroads: The World Is Not Enough (1999), by Tobias Hochscherf
20. The Digital Domain of Die Another Day (2002), by Christopher Holliday
21. What Matters More: Hierarchies of Value in Casino Royale (2006), by Christine Muller
22. “Like a Bullet . . .”: Speed, Economy, and Canonical Continuity in Quantum of Solace (2008), by Estella Tincknell
23. “Sometimes the Old Ways Are the Best”: Technology and the Body in a Gothic Reading of Sam Mendes’s Skyfall (2012), by Monica Germanà
24. “It’s Always Been Me”: Spectrality, Hauntings, and Retcon in Spectre (2015), by James Smith
25. No Time to Die (2021) and The Spy Who Loved #Me Too?, by Terence Mc Sweeney and Stuart Joy
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index