7. Femininity, Seriality and Collectivity: Rethinking the Bond Girl

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Introduction: Specters of 007 11
5. Part I Beyond Britain: The Transnational Configuration of the James Bond Phenomenon
6. 1. The Forgotten Bond: The CBS production of Casino Royale (1954) 25
7. 2. A Socialist 007: East European Spy Dramas in the Early James Bond Era 41
8. 3. From Indianization to Globalization: Tracking Bond in Bollywood 61
9. 4. The Dead Are Alive: The Exotic Non-Place of the Bondian Runaway Production 81
10. 5. Bond Rebooted: The Transnational Appeal of the Daniel Craig James Bond Films 103
11. Part II Beyond The Hero: The Cultural Politics of 007
12. 6. Paradoxical Masculinity: James Bond, Icon of Failure 125
13. 7. Femininity, Seriality and Collectivity: Rethinking the Bond Girl 149
14. 8. Market Forces: James Bond, Women of Color, and the Eastern Bazaar 171
15. 9. Shaken, Not Stirred Britishness: James Bond, Race, and the Transnational Imaginary 187
16. 10. Global Agency between Bond and Bourne : Skyfall and James Bond in Comparison to the Jason Bourne Film Series 207
17. Part III Beyond the Films: The Transmediality of the James Bond Franchise
18. 11. James Bond and Art Cinema 229
19. 12. Branding 007: Title Sequences in the James Bond Films 249
20. 13. “Unlike Men, The Diamonds Linger:” Bassey and Bond Beyond the Theme Song 269
21. 14. Skyfall and Global Casino Culture 289
22. 15. Three Dimensions of Bond : Adaptive Fidelity and Fictional Coherence in the Videogame Adaptations of GoldenEye 309
23. Index 327