Playboy and James Bond

Claire Hines is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Southampton Solent University

‘This book engages a range of topic relevant to university courses in fields such as English, History and Cultural Studies. It will also appeal to fans of Bond and popular culture. The playboy and James Bond is concise, fluent and eminently readable, striking the right balance between sharp analysis and telling a compelling story.’Professor Christoph Linder, University of Oregon'The more fascinating part of Hines’s analysis, however, goes beyond the two enterprises’ mutual boosting to spotlight the astonishingly parallel guidance they provided in encouraging male consumerism. One of the shared foci, on “fetishized mechanical objects”, was represented by Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 car and the Playboy automated round bed. Both Playboy and Bond encouraged the commodification of women and guilt-free (hetero-)sexuality, as evidences by the Bond girls and Playboy Bunnies. Both championed elaborate male grooming routines, gourmet food and alcohol, and travel to exotic locations … [This book] would be of use to scholars and teachers of intertextual analysis, magazine studies, and gender and sex in the media. It could also make an excellent addition to the reading lists of seminars on fanship studies or fan magazines.'Journal of Magazine Media

• Introduction1 Before the Bond2 The literary Bond3 The Connery Bond4 The consumer Bond5 The Bond women6 The Bond beyondIndex