Oliver Buckton is professor of English at Florida Atlantic University.

Oliver Buckton’s new anthology, The Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever is acutely aware of its subject’s reputation. . . . The authors whose work is collected within–including familiar names such as James Chapman and Matthew B. Sherman, alongside several newer contributors to the field–deploy affect theory, sound design, historiography, queer theory, feminism, postmodernism, and even food studies to prove that the academic potential of James Bond research is unlimited, even among Bond’s “minor” adventures. . . . [A] worthwhile, rich text.

• Foreword by Tom CullIntroduction: Oliver BucktonPart I: Sound, Affect, Adaptation, and Intertextuality in Diamonds Are ForeverChapter One: Elyn Achtymichuk-Hardy, “The Scorpion as Emblematic of Affect in Diamonds Are Forever” Chapter Two: Jesc Bunyard, “The Sounds of Diamonds Are Forever”Chapter Three: James Chapman, “Transforming Bond: Diamonds Are Forever in its Contexts”Chapter Four: Oliver Buckton, “James Bond, Meet John Blaize: Identity Theft and Intertextuality in Ian Fleming’s Diamonds Are Forever and The Diamond Smugglers”Part II: Gender and Sexuality in Diamonds Are ForeverChapter Five: Grant Hester “My Adversary, Myself: An Examination of James Bond and How Wint and Kidd Reflect His Own Psyche in Diamonds Are Forever”Chapter Six: Jennifer L. Martinsen, “The Devolution of Tiffany Case”Chapter Seven: Ihsan Amanatullah, “The Eyes of Tiffany Case: And What they Tell About Ian Fleming’s First Successful Female Character Part III: Culture, Consumption, and America in Diamonds Are ForeverChapter Eight: Matt Sherman, “Attitudes Are Forever: America Disdained”Chapter Nine: Mark David Kaufman, “The Desert of the Real: Diamonds Are Forever as a Hollywood Novel”Chapter Ten: Edward Biddulph, “Brizzola, Brandy and Bond: Representations of food and drink in the book and film of Diamonds Are Forever”IndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors

Oliver Buckton is professor of English at Florida Atlantic University.

Oliver Buckton’s new anthology, The Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever is acutely aware of its subject’s reputation. . . . The authors whose work is collected within–including familiar names such as James Chapman and Matthew B. Sherman, alongside several newer contributors to the field–deploy affect theory, sound design, historiography, queer theory, feminism, postmodernism, and even food studies to prove that the academic potential of James Bond research is unlimited, even among Bond’s “minor” adventures. . . . [A] worthwhile, rich text.

• Foreword by Tom CullIntroduction: Oliver BucktonPart I: Sound, Affect, Adaptation, and Intertextuality in Diamonds Are ForeverChapter One: Elyn Achtymichuk-Hardy, “The Scorpion as Emblematic of Affect in Diamonds Are Forever” Chapter Two: Jesc Bunyard, “The Sounds of Diamonds Are Forever”Chapter Three: James Chapman, “Transforming Bond: Diamonds Are Forever in its Contexts”Chapter Four: Oliver Buckton, “James Bond, Meet John Blaize: Identity Theft and Intertextuality in Ian Fleming’s Diamonds Are Forever and The Diamond Smugglers”Part II: Gender and Sexuality in Diamonds Are ForeverChapter Five: Grant Hester “My Adversary, Myself: An Examination of James Bond and How Wint and Kidd Reflect His Own Psyche in Diamonds Are Forever”Chapter Six: Jennifer L. Martinsen, “The Devolution of Tiffany Case”Chapter Seven: Ihsan Amanatullah, “The Eyes of Tiffany Case: And What they Tell About Ian Fleming’s First Successful Female Character Part III: Culture, Consumption, and America in Diamonds Are ForeverChapter Eight: Matt Sherman, “Attitudes Are Forever: America Disdained”Chapter Nine: Mark David Kaufman, “The Desert of the Real: Diamonds Are Forever as a Hollywood Novel”Chapter Ten: Edward Biddulph, “Brizzola, Brandy and Bond: Representations of food and drink in the book and film of Diamonds Are Forever”IndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors

Oliver Buckton is professor of English at Florida Atlantic University.

Oliver Buckton’s new anthology, The Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever is acutely aware of its subject’s reputation. . . . The authors whose work is collected within–including familiar names such as James Chapman and Matthew B. Sherman, alongside several newer contributors to the field–deploy affect theory, sound design, historiography, queer theory, feminism, postmodernism, and even food studies to prove that the academic potential of James Bond research is unlimited, even among Bond’s “minor” adventures. . . . [A] worthwhile, rich text.

• Foreword by Tom CullIntroduction: Oliver BucktonPart I: Sound, Affect, Adaptation, and Intertextuality in Diamonds Are ForeverChapter One: Elyn Achtymichuk-Hardy, “The Scorpion as Emblematic of Affect in Diamonds Are Forever” Chapter Two: Jesc Bunyard, “The Sounds of Diamonds Are Forever”Chapter Three: James Chapman, “Transforming Bond: Diamonds Are Forever in its Contexts”Chapter Four: Oliver Buckton, “James Bond, Meet John Blaize: Identity Theft and Intertextuality in Ian Fleming’s Diamonds Are Forever and The Diamond Smugglers”Part II: Gender and Sexuality in Diamonds Are ForeverChapter Five: Grant Hester “My Adversary, Myself: An Examination of James Bond and How Wint and Kidd Reflect His Own Psyche in Diamonds Are Forever”Chapter Six: Jennifer L. Martinsen, “The Devolution of Tiffany Case”Chapter Seven: Ihsan Amanatullah, “The Eyes of Tiffany Case: And What they Tell About Ian Fleming’s First Successful Female Character Part III: Culture, Consumption, and America in Diamonds Are ForeverChapter Eight: Matt Sherman, “Attitudes Are Forever: America Disdained”Chapter Nine: Mark David Kaufman, “The Desert of the Real: Diamonds Are Forever as a Hollywood Novel”Chapter Ten: Edward Biddulph, “Brizzola, Brandy and Bond: Representations of food and drink in the book and film of Diamonds Are Forever”IndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors