The James Bond Girls

Author : Maryam D'Abo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752215501
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bond Girls are Forever written by Maryam D'Abo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how Bond Girls have reflected and defined the changing image of women in the real world. Some of the actresses who took on the Bond challenge - from Ursula Andress to Judi Dench - also reveal the true stories behind the role that changed their lives.

Author : Monica Germanà
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350124702
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bond Girls written by Monica Germanà and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than the sexual objectification of female beauty. Through the original joint perspectives of body and fashion, this exciting study throws a new, subversive light on Bond Girls. Like Coco Chanel, fashion's 'eternal' mademoiselle, these 'Girls' are synonymous with an unconventional and dynamic femininity that does not play by the rules and refuses to sit still; far from being the passive objects of the male gaze, Bond Girls' active bodies instead disrupt the stable frame of Bond's voyeurism. Starting off with an original re-assessment of the cultural roots of Bond's postwar masculinity, the book argues that Bond Girls emerge from masculine anxieties about the rise of female emancipation after the Second World War and persistent in the present day. Displaying parallels with the politics of race and colonialism, such tensions appear through sartorial practices as diverse as exoticism, power dressing and fetish wear, which reveal complex and often contradictory ideas about the patriarchal and imperial ideologies associated with Bond. Attention to costume, film and gender theory makes Bond Girls: Body, Gender and Fashion essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, media and cultural studies, and for anyone with an interest in Bond.

Author : Graham Rye
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781852832674
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The James Bond Girls written by Graham Rye and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The James Bond girls have become a part of cinema legend, and this is the first book to fully examine the women who have graced the world of Ian Fleming's secret agent. It begins with Ursula Andress in Dr No and comes up-to-date with Pam Bouvier and Lupe Lamora in Licence to Kill.

Author : Lisa Funnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850921
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For His Eyes Only written by Lisa Funnell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The release of Skyfall in 2012 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. It earned over one billion dollars in the worldwide box office and won two Academy Awards. Amid popular and critical acclaim, some have questioned the representation of women in the film. From an aging M to the limited role of the Bond Girl and the characterization of Miss Moneypenny as a defunct field agent, Skyfall develops the legacy of Bond at the expense of women. Since Casino Royale (2006) and its sequels Quantum of Solace (2008) and Skyfall constitute a reboot of the franchise, it is time to question whether there is a place for women in the new world of James Bond and what role they will play in the future of series. This volume answers these questions by examining the role that women have historically played in the franchise, which greatly contributed to the international success of the films. This academic study constitutes the first book-length anthology on femininity and feminism in the Bond series. It covers all twenty-three Eon productions as well as the spoof Casino Royale (1967), considering a range of factors that have shaped the depiction of women in the franchise, including female characterization in Ian Fleming's novels; the vision of producer Albert R. Broccoli and other creative personnel; the influence of feminism; and broader trends in British and American film and television. The volume provides a timely look at women in the Bond franchise and offers new scholarly perspectives on the subject.

Author : Robert A. Caplen
Publisher : Robert Caplen
ISBN 13 : 1453512829
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaken & Stirred written by Robert A. Caplen and published by Robert Caplen. This book was released on 2010 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham Rye
Publisher : Boxtree
ISBN 13 : 9780752218762
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The James Bond Girls written by Graham Rye and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 1999 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Cork
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bond Girls are Forever written by John Cork and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaming with anecdotes, first-person testimony and visual commentary, this lavishly illustrated book reveals the history and mystique behind the Bond women in all their roles and the effect they have had on 007, the lives of the actresses, and on pop culture.

Author : Steven Jay Rubin
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641600853
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia written by Steven Jay Rubin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nobody does 007 encyclopedias better than Bond historian Steven Jay Rubin. Buy this one. M's orders." —George Lazenby, James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service Packed with behind-the-scenes information, fascinating facts, trivia, bloopers, classic quotes, character bios, cast and filmmaker bios, and hundreds of rare and unusual photographs of those in front of and behind the camera Ian Fleming's James Bond character has entertained motion picture audiences for nearly sixty years, and the filmmakers have come a long way since they spent $1 million producing the very first James Bond movie, Dr. No, in 1962. The 2015 Bond title, Spectre, cost $250 million and grossed $881 million worldwide—and 2021's No Time to Die is certain to become another global blockbuster. The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia is the completely up-to-date edition of author Steven Jay Rubin's seminal work on the James Bond film series. It covers the entire series through No Time to Die and showcases the type of exhaustive research that has been a hallmark of Rubin's work in film history. From the bios of Bond girls in front of the camera to rare and unusual photographs of those behind it, no detail of the Bond legacy is left uncovered.

Author : Graham Rye
Publisher : Boxtree
ISBN 13 : 9781852832766
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Bond Girls written by Graham Rye and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 1987-06-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Llewella Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350164658
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashioning James Bond written by Llewella Chapman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the costumes and fashion brands featured in the Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the 'look' of James Bond, and considers marketing strategies for the films and tie-in merchandise that promoted the idea of an aspirational 'James Bond lifestyle'. Addressing each Bond film in turn, Chapman questions why costumes are an important tool for analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of gender and identity in the James Bond film franchise in relation to character, and how it evokes the desire in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. She researches the agency of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. Alongside this, she analyses trends and their impact on the Bond films, how the different costume designers have individually and creatively approached costuming them, and how the costumes were designed and developed from novel to script and screen. In doing so, this book contributes to the emerging critical literature surrounding the combined areas of film, fashion, gender and James Bond.