James Bond: The Legacy - Hardcover

Cork, John; Scivally, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810932962 ISBN 13: 9780810932968

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 2002

Synopsis

A guide to the James Bond films provides background information on the novels, earlier spy films, key actors, production anecdotes, and other details, while considering the influence of current events and technological advances.

About this title

Review:

The ever-growing library of Bondiana (covering both the films and Fleming's original texts) is now straining many a shelf, and a publisher has to come up with something special to avoid 007-style d ja-vu. But this is something of an unusual venture in the genre. The James Bond Legacy chronicles the remarkable evolution of the Bond movies and examines what it is about them that changed cinema forever. This is a book that, decade by decade from the Sixties on, looks at Bond in history and history in Bond. The films are set 'two minutes into the future', and they have both echoed and presaged technological developments as well as the key moments in the Cold War and its aftermath. An ambitious and handsome volume that will attract a variety of markets.

About the Author:

John Cork and Bruce Scivally are two of the world's premier authorities on Bond having produced and written thirty documentaries for the MGM James Bond DVD project and contributed to The Ultimate James Bond CD ROM.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0810932962
• ISBN 13: 9780810932968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320