124220 SE Seminar Cultural and Media Studies / BA-Paper (2011W)

Commander James Bond was born in the early 1950s and is still going strong in the 21st century. "James Bond" has become a popular cultural icon and has acquired many meanings depending on perspective, time and context. From the early days in the late 1950s and early 1960s Bond has also been an academic topic and has since then been analysed utilising a variety of approaches and methodologies. We will read articles or sections from books with a focus on the analysis of Bond the movies. You are expected to base the topics for your presentations/papers on the films and you need to build your arguments on close readings (mise-en-scene analysis or shot-by-shot analysis) of the filmic examples chosen.