The Bondian Cold War : The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon (Paperback)

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.