An Academic conference to study James Bond – just what we need to unpack this problematic emblem of masculinity. According to the UPI Newstrack,
Alain Brassart, from France’s University of Lille, said he will explain at the conference, scheduled for later this month, how “the archaic virility of Bond, a personality at once reactionary and rebellious, courteous and misogynist, was able to seduce audiences in the 1960s and today.”
Thanks to Joanne for this after I told her I was buying the boxes of Bond movies in order to study how to do presentations properly … you know … the bad guys always reveal their evil plot in a magnificent presentation well beyond PowerPoint.