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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"James Bond"”.
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Shaken, Not Stirred: Espionage, Fantasy, and British Masculinity During the Cold War
… Cambridge Five captivated the news media. The James Bond films of the 1960s were the negotiating of the new British masculinity and American masculinity on the silver screen. This project builds on and bridges gaps between the historiographies on espionage, popular culture, gender, and empire. …
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Bondmania: Spy Films, American Foreign Policy, and the New Frontier of the 1960s
… the Cold War, with a specific focus on the James Bond films and their numerous imitators. The goal is to explore why these films were popular, particularly during the decade of the 1960s, and how these films and characters were used to address a number of anxieties that faced the United …
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Hench
… thanks to an unlikely friendship with a James-Bond-esque agent. This creative explication explains how Hench achieves commentary on how large corporate structures operate to maintain control over employees, and the effects this has on individuals. It further highlights the tools and …
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Immortal Melancholia: A Psychoanalytical Study of Byronic Heroes
… the 2004 film <em>The Phantom of the Opera</em>, James Bond from the 2012 film <em>Skyfall</em>, and Damon Salvatore from the hit television series <em>The Vampire Diaries</em> (2009-2017). Through examining the actions of these characters through a psychoanalytic lens, I argue that the Byronic …
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Exilic Vision and the Cinematic Interrogation of Britain: The Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter Collaboration
… to the international popularity of the Beatles, James Bond, and the fashion of designer Mary Quant. Yet this veneer of sex appeal and economic prosperity veiled ongoing class and racial tension, gender inequality, homosexual oppression, and a dissolving Empire. Losey and Pinter foreground these …