This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining
exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films. Jeremy
Black offers a historian’s interpretation from the perspective of the
late 2010s, assessing James Bond in terms of the greatly changing world
order of the Bond years—a lifetime that stretches from 1953, when the
first novel appeared, to the present. Black argues that the Bond
novels—the Fleming books as well as the often-neglected novels authored
by others after Fleming died in 1964—and films drew on current fears in
order to reduce the implausibility of the villains and their villainy.
The
novels and films also presented potent images of national character,
explored the rapidly changing relationship between a declining Britain
and an ascendant United States, charted the course of the Cold War and
the subsequent post-1990 world, and offered an evolving but always
potent demonology. Bond was, and still is, an important aspect of
post–World War II popular culture throughout the Western world. This was
particularly so after Hollywood launched the filmic Bond, thus making
him not only a character designed for the American film market but also a
world product and a figure of globalization. Class, place, gender,
violence, sex, race—all are themes that Black scrutinizes through the
ongoing shifts in characterization and plot. His well-informed and
well-argued analysis provides a fascinating history of the enduring and
evolving appeal of James Bond.
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