The Playboy and The James Bond

The playboy and James Bond

007, Ian Fleming and Playboy magazine

 

 

 

Elizabeth Ave

Manchester University Press

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ISBN  978 0 7190 8226 9  hardback

First published 2018

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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Select timeline

page vi

ix xi

Introduction

1

1  Before the bond

8

2  The literary Bond

24

3  The Connery Bond

58

4  The consumer bond

84

5  The Bond women

122

6  The bond beyond

159

Select bibliography

199

Index

204

3.1      Bond is ordered by M to surrender his Beretta in

Dr No (1962). Produced by Albert Broccoli and

Harry Saltzman. Directed by Terence Young                                    page 71

3.2      Bond grows suspicious of Red Grant when he drinks red wine with fish onboard the Orient Express in From Russia with Love (1963). Produced by Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. Directed

by Terence Young       74

4.1      Bond is under threat from Auric Goldfinger’s high-tech laser in Goldfinger (1964). Produced by Albert Broccoli