Understanding Women in James Bond Films
The Bond Creator Ian Fleming ( )
Some Works by Ian Fleming
The Bond Films
Scholarly Criticism about Bond Kingsley Amis Umberto Eco Tara Brabazon John Belton to name a few…
Film and Reality Nikita Khrushchov Blofeld
…his new incredible women…
Honey to Jinx
Roald Dahl - Screenwriter
Aki – Girl #1 Killed by poison meant for Bond
Helga Brandt – Girl #2 The poisonous lipstick was not a product placement
Kissy Suzuki – Girl #3 Pearl fisher helpmate at fake marriage
The Sacrificial Lamb Goldfinger : Jill Masterson becomes a “Golden Girl” Diamonds are Forever : Plenty O’Toole sinks to the bottom of a Las Vegas pool
Love interests On Her Majesty’s Secret Service : Teresa di Vicenzo, the only Mrs. James Bond Dr. No : Honey Rider on the beach
Anti-Bond Girls Goldeneye : Kenia Onatopp, skilled pilot and squeezer View to a Kill : May Day, genetic mutant
Turned Girls Goldfinger : Pussy Galore, another type of pilot Live and Let Die : Solitaire with special gifts of vision
Octopussy
“M”
Miss Moneypenny
Tiffany Case to… 1971’s Inept Sidekick
Dr. Jones and Jinx
Film Theorists Jeremy Black James Chapman Laura Mulvey Susan Kilburne
Jeremy Black The Black text, The Politics of James Bond
Kissy and Wai Lin
James Chapman The Chapman text, Licence to Thrill, the James Bond Films
The Fleming Effect
Laura Mulvey
The Mirror Image
Susan Kilbourne
60’s Goldfinger (1964) From Russia with Love (1963) Dr. No (1962) You Only Live Twice (1967) Thunderball (1965)
70’s Live and Let Die (1973) Diamonds are Forever (1971) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) The Spy who Loved Me (1977) The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
80’s Octopussy (1983) For Your Eyes Only (1981) Moonraker (1979) The Living Daylights (1987) A View to a Kill (1985)
90’s Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) GoldenEye (1995) Licence to Kill (1989) Die Another Day (2002) The World is Not Enough (1999)
The Bond Look
The End JANE BOND, JANE BOND