A Timeless Character Born Within History: The Paradox of James Bond in the Novels and On Screen

A Timeless Character Born Within History : The Paradox Of James Bond In The Novels And On Screen Ludovic Trautmann Université Laval

The name’s Bond, James Bond... Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig

History made Bond

Ian Fleming and James Bond
Nazis and Communists

Bond deals with History

The United Kingdom : A Bridge Between the US and the USSR?
The End Of The Cold War, The End Of James Bond ?
Bond And The Genre

A Timeless Character

In The Books
On Screen

History made Bond

Ian Fleming and James Bond

View from Ian Fleming’s Goldeneye

The James Bond comic strip published in The Daily Express in 1963.

The cast of Casino Royale in 1954 : Peter Loore, Linda Christian and Barry Nelson The producers of the 12 first James Bond movies : Albert Broccoli and Harry Salzman, here with Roger Moore

“ The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

Nazis And Communists : Enemies Are The reflects Of A Period

Umberto Eco “ The Villain is born in an ethnic area that stretches from Central Europe to the Slav countries and to the Mediterranean basin […]. He is asexual or homosexual, or at any rate is not sexually normal. […] the racial convention blames particularly the Jews, the Germans, the Slavs, and the Italians, always depicted as halfbreeds” Narrative structures in Fleming

SMERSH : SMERT SHPIONAM Death to spies

SPecial Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion SPECTRE :

Bond deals with History

The United Kingdom: a bridge between the US and the USSR ?

“ East, West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other. ” Dr. No, Dr. No Joseph Wiseman as Dr. No

“ Broccoli has sensed from the start that if he wanted these films to have the widest possible international audience, and indeed the longest possible shelf-life in term of cinematic reissues [...], then the villains would have to be apolitical and largely from the private sector.” Sinclair McKay, The Man with the Golden Touch – How the Bond films conquered the world

The End Of The Cold War, The End Of James Bond ? The Cast of Live and Let Die Moonraker

Bond And The Genre Scenes from North by Northwest , directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Fort Knox in Goldfinger , design by Ken Adams Inside the volcano, You Only Live Twice , Design by Ken Adams