Stella Rimington has died, aged 90. Her spy novels, written from her secret service experience, provide fascinating insights into a clandestine world.
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Knight can give us a Bond who is both iconic and human.
Bond films have leaned into and shifted away from the allure of hi-tech gadgetry at different times over the years.
It is doubtful that audiences will expect a campy pantomime Bond like Roger Moore.
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?
Amazon has the means required to reboot Bond and spend lavishly on production and top talent.
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.
At Q’s of course! But he doesn’t pull them out of his sleeve. In Spectre (2015), Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw play the famous spy and his gadget supplier.
The release of “No Time to Die”, scheduled for next spring, is an opportunity to analyse the role of the Aston Martin brand and the way it contributes to the construction of the character.
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.
The martini cocktail has existed in a number of guises throughout its ice cold, crisp life – including many questionable modern variations.
We don’t look to James Bond for accurate depictions of spycraft, but at least some of his adventures are grounded in reality.
From ‘Breaking Bad’ to James Bond, certain chemicals are popular options for characters looking to achieve nefarious ends.
007 uses an English upper-class, ‘Received Pronunciation’ accent.
Poetry can unite people when all seems lost. The Conversation US has pulled together four articles from its archives that speak on the power of poetry.
For six decades, this quintessentially British character has forged a strong relationship with the continent.
Epic poetry tends to be seen as highbrow, while action films are regarded as puerile and brutish. But the two share an affinity for dressing up brutal deaths with rhetorical flair.
James Bond is a character reinvented with every new incarnation – why is his misogyny still dated back in the 60s?
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Professor of Film Studies, University of Leicester
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James J. Stansell Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities, San Diego State University
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