The Bondian Cold War

The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-56936-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Espionage and Culture

James Bond, Ian Fleming’s irrepressible and ubiquitous ‘spy,’ is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bond’s Cold War diverged from the actual global conflict in subtle but significant ways.

That tension between the real and fictional provides perspectives into Cold War culture transcending ideological and geopolitical divides. The Bondiverse is complex and multi-textual, including novels, films, video games, and even a comic strip, and has also inspired an array of homages, copies, and competitors. Awareness of its rich possibilities only becomes apparent through a multi-disciplinary lens.

The desire to consider current trends in Bondian studies inspired a conference entitled ‘The Bondian Cold War,’ convened at Tallinn University, Estonia in June 2019. Conference participants, drawn from three continents and multiple disciplines – film studies, history, intelligence studies, and literature, as well as intelligence practitioners – offered papers on the literary and cinematic aspects of the ‘spy’, discussed fact versus fiction in the Bond canon, went in search of a global Bond, and pondered gender and sexuality across the Bondiverse.

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.

Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Martin D.

Granieri, Ronald J.

Blaive, Muriel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).