The Bondian Cold War (eBook, ePUB)

The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon
Redaktion: Brown, Martin D.; Blaive, Muriel; Granieri, Ronald J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume of essays inspired by that conference, suitable for students, researchers, and anyone interested in Cold War culture, makes vital contributions to understanding Bond as a global phenomenon, across traditional divisions of East and West, and beyond the end of the Cold War from which he emerged.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000934762
• Artikelnr.: 68382715

Autorenporträt

Martin D. Brown, F.R.Hist.S., is a diplomatic historian at Richmond American University. Between 2018 and 2019, he was Lead Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies, Tallinn University. His publications include Slovakia in History (2011), and 'Executors or creative deal-makers? The role of the diplomats in the making of the Helsinki CSCE', with Dr Angela Romano (2019). Ronald J. Granieri is Professor of History at the United States Army War College and Director of the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His publications include The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966 (2003). Muriel Blaive is a historian of Czech communism and post-communism. She is currently Elise Richter Fellow at Graz University. She edited a special issue of East Central Europe on "Surveillance of Culture, Culture of Surveillance" (October 2022), and of East European Politics and Societies on "Writing on Communist History" (August 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Taking the Bondian Cold War seriously. Part 1: The Bondian Cold War. 1. The Bondian Cold War: The business of ambiguity 2. Bond Re: Bourne: Transatlantic Translations of Espionage Heroism in the Bond Era 3. 'No James Bonds in this business': The Sandbaggers (ITV, 1978-80) and the Evolution of the 'Anti-Bond' 4. James Bond and the Subterranean Cold War: Materiality, Strategy and Volume. Part 2: Fact versus Fiction. 5. Bond and the archives 6. Interview with Avner Avraham, Former Mossad Operative 7. James Bond, Ian Fleming and intelligence: breaking down the boundary between the 'real' and the 'imagined' Part 3: Global Bond: Behind the Curtain. 8. Vladimir Lenin as James Bond: The Fiction of Zoya Voskresenskaya-Rybkina 9. Agent Rising in the Reich - The Shield and the Sword: A forgotten classic among Soviet intelligence films and what it can tell us about why the Soviet Union could not go Bond 10. A Soviet 007 fighting fascism in the west? Soviet Internationalism and the real and imagined lives of agents in Savva Kulish's The Dead Season [Mertvyi Sezon] (1968) 11. Into the Heartland - Bond joining the Jihad. Part 4: Of Human Bondage: Gender, Sexuality and the Spy. 12. "You Can Bet He's Reading One of Those Ian Fleming Thrillers": James, Jack, and American Cold War Masculinity. 13. "Like a Party Political Broadcast for you-know-who": Margaret Thatcher and the reception of Octopussy (1983). 14. Concluding essay: James Bond Will Return.