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James Bond & Friends - Episode 0025

19th September 2019

How is America treated in the James Bond series?

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How is America treated in the James Bond series?

This episode of 'James Bond & Friends' is hosted by James Page with guests Lisa Funnell, Bill Koenig, and Ben Williams.

We kick off this week talking about the use of American locations in the James Bond novels and films, and quickly get detoured in to a deeper discussion about how the lense of Bond bends the relationship between the UK and the US through distortions and battles of power, culture, and sex. Along the way, we stumble upon rogue palm trees, 2 am commutes to Fort Knox, Welsh paddy fields, and banishing 007 from LA.

You can contact the show via the Twitter hashtag #askbond

The recording took place on August 29th, 2019 in the USA.

James Page is a co-founder of MI6-HQ.com and the magazine MI6 Confidential

Lisa Funnell (@CinemaOnFire) is Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma

Bill Koenig runs the Spy Command at hmssweblog.wordpress.com

Ben Williams writes for MI6-HQ.com and MI6 Confidential

This podcast is copyright Pretitles LLC © 2019

Music credit 'Spy & Die' by Jay Man


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