Estella Tincknell Estella.Tincknell@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Film and Culture
Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale
Tincknell, Estella
Authors
Contributors
Christophe Lindner
Editor
Abstract
Casino Royale was widely marketed and received as a 're-booting' of the Bond franchise, with a concomitant reinvention of the Bond girl for a post-feminist world. This essay critiques this claim, identifying important continuities between the film's systematic destruction of the charater of the initially self-reliant female spy, Vesper Lynd, and the long tradition of the threatening and sexually untrustworthy female double agent in the triller genre. The essay explores the cultural history of the figure of the female agent, and considers the threat she poses both to the security of masculinity as a subject position and to masculine agency in its social sense.
Citation
Tincknell, E. (2010). Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale. In C. Lindner (Ed.), Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale. Wallflower Press
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2010 |
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Peer Reviewed | Not Peer Reviewed |
Book Title | Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale |
ISBN | 9781906660208 |
Keywords | Post-feminism, film, Bond |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/978869 |
Publisher URL | http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk |
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