Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change. While focus is often placed on individual actions and institutional policies and practices, it is important to recognize the role that culture plays within these systems. Mainstream film is not simply 'mindless' entertainment but a key part of a global cultural industry that naturalizes and normalizes power structures.
Engaging with these issues, Resisting James Bond is a multidisciplinary collection that explores inequality and oppression in the world of 007 through a range of critical and theoretical approaches. The chapters explore the embodiment and disembodiment of power and privilege across the formal, narrative, cultural and geopolitical elements that define the revisionist-reversionist world of Daniel Craig’s Bond.
Author(s): Lisa Funnell; Christoph Lindner (editors)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 196
City: New York
Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword: Bond is Dead. Long Live 007 Marwan M. Kraidy
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Resisting James Bond in the Daniel Craig Era Lisa Funnell and Christoph Lindner
Part One Embodiment
1 James Bond, Environmental Injustice and ‘Slow Violence’ in the Craig Era Tatiana Konrad
2 ‘Do You Expect Me to Talk?’: Bond the Torture Critic Ron E. Hassner
3 The Thrusting Tip of the Spy Business: Discovering Resistance in the Modern Moneypennys Colin Burnett
4 Highland Rape: Scotland’s Traumatic Past in Skyfall Mary M. Burke
5 ‘Do You Consider Your Employment to Be Psychologically Stressful?’: Gender, Trauma and Resilience in Daniel Craig’s James Bond Bridget E. Keown
Part Two Disembodiment
6 For Your Servers Only: Surveillance and Infonationalism in Craig-era Bond Kathryn Hendrickson and John Brick
7 Spectres of Capitalism: Globalization in the Craig-era Bond Films Milo Sweedler
8 Bond, Race and Coloniality: No Time to Die(versify) … Harshad Keval
9 Licence to Urbicide: Defusing Bond’s Acts of Terrorism for a New Era Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Afterword: 007 and Ableism Lisa Funnell
Contributors
Index
