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MI6 previews a new academic analysis of the world
of James Bond with over 40 original essays...
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Book Preview: James Bond and Popular Culture
25th July 2010
James Bond and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough
Edited
by Robert G. Weiner, B. Lynn Whitfield and Jack
Becker
Blurb
James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough
provides the most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena
ever published. The 40
original essays provide new insights, scholarship, and
understanding to the world of James Bond.
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Topics include
the Bond girl, Bond related video games, Ian Fleming’s
relationship with the notorious Aleister Crowley and CIA
director Alan Dulles. Other articles include Fleming as
a character in modern fiction, Bond Jr. comics, the post
Fleming novels of James Gardner and Raymond Benson, Bond
as an American Superhero, and studies on the music, dance,
fashion, and architecture in Bond films. Woody Allen and
Peter Sellers as James Bond, are also considered as is
Japanese imitation films from the 1960s, the Britishness
of Bond, comparisons of Bond to Christian ideals, movie
posters and much more.
Scholars from a wide variety of
disciplines have contributed a unique collection of perspectives
on the world of James Bond and its history. Despite the
diversity of viewpoints, the unifying factor is the James
Bond mythos. James Bond in World and Popular Culture:
The Films are Not Enough is a much needed contribution
to Bond
studies and shows how this cultural icon has changed
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Datastream
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages: 515
Format: Hardback
RRP: £54.99 / $82.99
ISBN: 1443822892
Released: 1st September 2010 (UK)
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Amazon UK (Hardback)
About The Editors
Robert G. Weiner is associate Humanities Librarian at Texas Tech
University. He has a presentation that he has given at conferences
and even once in a church entitled “How My X-Wife taught
me to love James Bond.” He has taught several classes on
Bond and Popular Culture. Weiner is area chair for James Bond
and Popular Culture for the Southwest Popular Culture Association.
He has been published in Texas Library Journal, Journal of Southwest
Cultures, International Journal of Comic Art, and the East Texas
Historical Journal. He is the author and editor of books on the
Grateful Dead, and most recently edited Graphic Novels and Comics
and Libraries, and co-edited From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse
and Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins.
This book on Bond has long been a dream of his.
B. Lynn Whitfield is an Associate Archivist at the Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library where she serves as the
University Archivist of Texas Tech University and administers
its records management program. She received her Bachelor’s
Degree in Art from Mercer University in 1993, her Master’s
Degree in Museum Science in 1995 and passed the national archivist’s
exam in 2004 to become a Certified Archivist. Recently she edited
the exhibit catalog, “Medieval Southwest: Manifestations
of the Old World in the New.”
Jack Becker is an associate librarian at Texas Tech University.
He is the librarian for history. He has been published in the
West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, Journal of Southwest
Cultures, and Journal of Ethno-American History. He has presented
on James Bond at the Southwestern Popular Culture Association.
