{"id":1421,"date":"2007-01-02T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T21:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2007-01-02T16:52:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T21:52:35","slug":"academic-conference-to-study-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Academic conference to study James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/NewsTrack\/view.php?StoryID=20070101-122053-4814r\">Academic conference to study James Bond<\/a> &#8211; just what we need to unpack this problematic emblem of masculinity. According to the UPI Newstrack,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alain Brassart, from France&#8217;s University of Lille, said he will explain at the conference, scheduled for later this month, how &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 &#8230; you know &#8230; the bad guys always reveal their evil plot in a magnificent presentation well beyond PowerPoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Academic conference to study James Bond &#8211; just what we need to unpack this problematic emblem of masculinity. According to the UPI Newstrack, Alain Brassart, from France&#8217;s University of Lille, said he will explain at the conference, scheduled for later this month, how &#8220;the archaic virility of Bond, a personality at once reactionary and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic conference to study James Bond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playful-or-cool","category-streaming-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}