Book chapter
Paradoxical Masculinity: James Bond, Icon of Failure
The Cultural Life of James Bond, pp.125-148
De Gruyter
2020
Abstract
The James Bond films enact dilemmas posed by paradoxical, split subjectivity of male spies under capitalism, Success and failure, sophistication and ignorance, knowledge and class, gender and sexuality, commercial targeting and viewing pleasure jumble together in a complex amalgam. A weird mix of hyper-bourgeois individualist, technocrat, and empty signifier, 007 can never relax, never truly know who he is, beyond being a shifting sign of impermanent state labor. Hi masculinity incarnates these paradoxes: often derided and celebrated for hi brutality, Bond exemplifies less-than-conventional forms of life in his sexuality and identity.
Details
- Title
- Paradoxical Masculinity: James Bond, Icon of Failure
- Authors/Creators
- T. Miller (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- The Cultural Life of James Bond, pp.125-148
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Identifiers
- 991005543040307891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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