Bondian Cold War

<p>James Bond Ian Fleming’s irrepressible and ubiquitous ‘spy’ is often understood as a Cold Warrior but James Bond’s Cold War diverged from the actual global conflict in subtle but significant ways.</p><p>That tension between the real and fictional provides perspectives into Cold War culture transcending ideological and geopolitical divides. The Bondiverse is complex and multi-textual including novels films video games and even a comic strip and has also inspired an array of homages copies and competitors. Awareness of its rich possibilities only becomes apparent through a multi-disciplinary lens.</p><p>The desire to consider current trends in Bondian studies inspired a conference entitled ‘The Bondian Cold War’ convened at Tallinn University Estonia in June 2019. Conference participants drawn from three continents and multiple disciplines – film studies history intelligence studies and literature as well as intelligence practitioners – offered papers on the literary and cinematic aspects of the ‘spy’ discussed fact versus fiction in the Bond canon went in search of a global Bond and pondered gender and sexuality across the Bondiverse.</p><p>This volume of essays inspired by that conference suitable for students researchers and anyone interested in Cold War culture makes vital contributions to understanding Bond as a global phenomenon across traditional divisions of East and West and beyond the end of the Cold War from which he emerged.</p>