Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale

by Christoph Lindner (Editor)

Overview

Revisioning 007 is a lively collection of new essays on the reinvention of James Bond in the 2006 film Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig in his first appearance as Agent 007. Treating Casino Royale as a case study in popular film culture and as a significant turning point in the 007 series, the book offers innovative readings of the film and its interrelations with the Bond franchise, the culture industry, and recent developments in cinema, society, and world politics. Essay topics range from the analysis of 007's masochism, voyeurism, and hyper-mobility, to the examination of the film's testicular torture scene, the links between international politics and high-stakes gambling, and the changing role of the secret agent in a post-9/11 world order.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781906660192
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	09/08/2010
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Christoph Lindner is professor and chair of English literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Fictions of Commodity Culture (2003) and editor of Urban Space and Cityscapes (2006) and The James Bond Phenomenon (2003).

Table of Contents

Contributors vii

Acknowledgements xi

Select Bond Chronology xiii

Introduction: Revisioning 007 Christoph Lindner 1

Part 1 Enacting Bond

1 The History of Casino Royale On (and Off) Screen Will Scheibel 11

2 'Do I Look Like I Give a Damn?': What's Right About Getting It Wrong in Casino Royale Douglas L. Howard 33

3 Hardly the Big Picture: The Ellipsis and Narratives of Interruption in Casino Royale Jason Sperb 50

4 It Just Keeps Getting Bigger: James Bond and the Political Economy of Huge Joyce Goggin René Glos 67

Part 2 Engendering Bond

5 'Any Thug Can Kill': Rewriting the Masculine Bond Douglas A. Cunningham Richard Gabri 81

6 Double-0 Agencies: Femininity, Post-Feminism and the Female Spy Estella Tincknell 99

7 Male Masochism in Casino Royale Audrey D. Johnson 114

Part 3 Embodying Bond

8 Improvisation, Action and Architecture in Casino Royale Monika Gehlawat 131

9 'Gallivanting Round the World': Bond, the Gaze and Mobility Brian Baker 144

10 Bond, Benjamin, Balls: Technologised Masculinity in Casino Royale Keren Omry 159

Bibliography 173

Index 180