Understanding Women in James Bond Films

The Bond Creator

Ian Fleming (1908-1964)

Some Works by Ian Fleming

The Bond Films

The Bond Films

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

1962 2002

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”

1961 1999

Miss Moneypenny

1962 1995

Tiffany Case to…

1971’s Inept Sidekick

Dr. Jones and Jinx

20021997

Film Theorists Jeremy Black James Chapman Laura Mulvey Susan Kilburne

Jeremy Black

The Black text, The Politics of James Bond

Kissy and Wai Lin

1967

1997

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 Bond Look

The End

JANE

BOND, JANE BOND