Fighting on the Home Front: Skyfall (2012) and James Bond’s London

Schwanebeck, Wieland

Fighting on the Home Front: Skyfall (2012) and James Bond’s London

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage	160
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage	176
dc.contributor.author	Schwanebeck, Wieland
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-22T14:02:40Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-22T14:02:40Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	Whereas the city of London mainly served as a safe haven and as the backdrop for expository scenes in the early James Bond films, it has acquired a more prominent role within the most recent films in the series. Skyfall (2012), in particular, saw a significant departure from the franchise’s traditional reliance on exotic locations and based nearly a third of its running time in the British capital. At the same time, the notion of Bond’s ‘coming home’ (which serves as a dominant motif in the film) coincides with a paradigm shift in post-9/11 geopolitics. The article traces these developments by assessing Skyfall’s depiction of London and how the film negotiates and adapts classic Bond tropes in the ‘age of terrorism’.
dc.description.url	https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004344013/B9789004344013_009.xml
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/730
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publishedIn	Leiden, Boston
dc.publisher	Brill \| Rodopi
dc.relation.doi	10.1163/9789004344013
dc.relation.editor	Lindner, Oliver
dc.relation.editor	Schneider, Ralf
dc.relation.ispartof	London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Spatial Practices; 24
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	Fighting on the Home Front: Skyfall (2012) and James Bond’s London
dc.type	anthologyArticle
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