Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond

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Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures

“…Paasi 1996). Largely positioned within the subfield of critical geopolitics, this research shows how nationhood and statehood are imagined, consumed and reproduced through popular media like comic books (Dittmer 2005), film (Funnell and Dodds 2017), television (Jones 2014), mainstream news and satire (Falah et al 2006;Holland and Levy 2018) and sport (Koch 2013(Koch , 2015a. This work also focuses our attention on the entanglement of the 'nation' and the 'state', which scholars have explored around themes like religion and the military -both of which are treated as central to national identity construction and the statization of society through a range of national institutions and related practices (Bernazzoli and Flint 2010;Woodward 2000).…”

Crafting a World-Class Brand: Shaw Brothers’ Appropriation of Foreign Models

“…35 Casinos signified a highbrow social space where James Bond possessed enough social and cultural capital to successfully navigate his way through this space to bring down the villain's organization. 36 Compared with the glamorous casinos in the Anglo-American productions, the low-cost sets in Shaw Brothers' Bond films were more like gambling dens drawn from the milieu of gangster films. Limited production costs were the constraints of Shaw Brothers on producing first-rate films.…”

James Bond, Ian Fleming and intelligence: breaking down the boundary between the ‘real’ and the ‘imagined’

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