Bond films have leaned into and shifted away from the allure of hi-tech gadgetry at different times over the years.
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Until now, the glamorous spy has existed in many different forms across many different mediums. Could a new, more coherent universe be on the horizon?
The new 00s are back in a mission to stop a network of international smugglers and rescue Britain’s greatest spy, James Bond.
The casting of James Bond has been met with much intrigue and myth over the years.
Alexander Howard stumbled on spymaster John Le Carré soon after relishing a James Bond film. And he was instantly hooked on George Smiley, Le Carré’s unglamorous bureaucrat-detective – an unlikely hero.
John le Carré and Ian Fleming, the world’s most famous spy novelists, share experience in UK intelligence and difficult childhoods. But their heroes, George Smiley and James Bond, are very different.
We don’t look to James Bond for accurate depictions of spycraft, but at least some of his adventures are grounded in reality.
Rumour has it British actress Lashana Lynch will play 007 in the next Bond film. If true, the move will be a welcome change to a franchise that has long remained the epitome of conservatism.
Why can’t fiction’s most famous secret agent be played by Idris Elba? Just use your imagination.
The tensions between North Korea and the US over its long range ballistic missile programme echo a well-known James Bond plot.
Why are we so desperate to cling on to the heterosexist, misogynistic, and racist character?
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Academic Enhancement Lead, De Montfort University
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Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University
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Reader in Gothic and Contemporary Studies, University of Westminster
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Professor of Film Studies, University of Leicester
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Head of Film, Screen and Creative Media, Bond University
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Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Visual Cultures Education, Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities, King's College London