James Chapman
Dr. No: The First James Bond Film
Dr. No: The First James Bond Film
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Dr. No, which debuted in 1962, launched the longest-running series in cinema history. It introduced the James Bond formula, featuring sensational plots, colorful locations, beautiful women, diabolical villains, thrilling action set pieces, and a tongue-in-cheek tone. James Chapman's book explores the film's transnational production process, its origins in Ian Fleming's thrillers, its place in the UK and Hollywood film industries, and its problematic politics of gender and race. It appeals to film historians and Bond fans alike.
Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 08 November 2022
Publisher: Columbia University Press
When Dr. No premiered at the London Pavilion on October 5, 1962, no one predicted that it would launch the longest-running series in cinema history. It introduced the James Bond formula that has been a box-office fixture ever since: sensational plots, colorful locations, beautiful women, diabolical villains, thrilling action set pieces, and a tongue-in-cheek tone. An explosive cocktail of action, spectacle, and sex, Dr. No transformed popular cinema.
James Chapman provides a lively and comprehensive study of Dr. No, marshaling a wealth of archival research to place the film in its historical moment. He demonstrates that, contrary to many fan myths, the film was the product of a carefully considered transnational production process. Chapman explores the British super-spy's origins in Ian Fleming's snobbery-with-violence thrillers, examining the process of adaptation from page to screen. He considers Dr. No in the contexts of the UK and Hollywood film industries as well as the film's place in relation to the changing social and cultural landscape of the 1960s, particularly Cold War anxieties and the decline of the British Empire. The book also analyzes the film's problematic politics of gender and race and considers its cultural legacy.
This thorough and insightful account of Dr. No will appeal to film historians and Bond fans alike.
Weight: 446g
Dimension: 148 x 223 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780231204927
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