Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale

Tincknell, E. (2010) Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale. In: Lindner, C. , ed. (2010) Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale. Wallflower Press. ISBN 9781906660208

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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.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Post-feminism, film, Bond
Faculty/Department:	Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education > Department of Arts ~Pre-2010 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Creative Arts > School of Creative Arts > Department of Culture, Media and Drama
ID Code:	10632
Deposited By:	E. Cholerton
Deposited On:	28 Jul 2010 14:32
Last Modified:	22 Nov 2012 16:01