Spying in Gagool’s Cave: James Bond’s Colonial Adventures

Schwanebeck, Wieland

doi:10.1515/ang-2016-0052

Spying in Gagool’s Cave: James Bond’s Colonial Adventures

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage	506
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue	3
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage	520
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume	134
dc.contributor.author	Schwanebeck, Wieland
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-21T11:26:36Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-21T11:26:36Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	This article assesses the colonial legacy in the long-running James Bond franchise. While various Bond scholars have repeatedly stressed the 007 fran- chise’s indebtedness to the geopolitical coordinates and mentality of 19th century imperialism and to the Victorian era’s ideals of masculinity, this article is the first one to read a Bond film (A View to a Kill, Roger Moore’s final adventure in the role as 007) as an adaptation of a colonialist-era pretext, in this case: H. Rider Haggard’s seminal Africa novel, King Solomon’s Mines (1885). Out of the numer- ous parallels drawn between both texts, the role of the aged adventurer, the significance of the map and its psychosexual connotations, as well as the night- marish construction of an animalistic, racialised female Other are highlighted in this reading. It culminates in a brief assessment of the most recent Bond films, as both Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), in spite of some (postcolonial) adjustments, continue to be indebted to an imperialist mental framework.
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/ang-2016-0052
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/718
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.issn	1865-8938
dc.relation.journal	Anglia
dc.rights	L::The Stacks License
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:791
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:820
dc.subject.field	englishstudies
dc.subject.field	filmstudies
dc.title	Spying in Gagool’s Cave: James Bond’s Colonial Adventures
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