CFP: SWTX PCA/ACA James Bond Cultures Panel

Darryl Wiggers <[email protected]>
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From: Michele Brittany <[email protected]>

*Call for Papers: James Bond and Popular Culture*

*Title and Abstract Submission Deadline: December 1, 2011*



Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association

33rd Annual Conference celebrating “Food & Culture(s) in a Global  
Context”

February 8 – 11, 2012

Conference Hotel: Hyatt Regency, 330 Tijeras NW, Albuquerque, NM (505)
842-1234

http://www.swtxpca.org



The SWTX PCA/ACA James Bond and Popular Culture Area Chair invites  
papers
for the annual conference on ANY aspect of James Bond films, literature,
comics, video games, and culture. Here are some topics to consider,  
but is
by no means an exhaustive list:



   - Explore criticism of recent Bond movies being more like Bourne  
movies
   - Analyzing Bond’s motives in the history of Bond films – have they
   changed?
   - Is there room for a 21st Century Bond?
   - Villains as metaphors for nationalistic/political sentiments
   - Raymond Benson or John Gardner as Bond Novelist
   - How does James Bond novel *Devil May Care* by Sebastian Faulks  
stand
   up as a direct sequel to *Man with the Golden Gun* by Ian Fleming?
   - Is *Never Say Never* part of Bond canon?
   - Literary Bond vs. Filmic Bond
   - Comparison of Bond portrayals in the films
   - Picking Bond – History of Bond Candidates
   - Ian Fleming as Storyteller and post-Fleming novels
   - Switching Genders: The Character M
   - Bond Women/Sexism in Bond Films/Women’s Studies perspective
   - James Bond Jr. Cartoon/Comics
   - Eurospy and Asian inspired movies
   - Videogame adaptations
   - Continuity challenges of a 50+ year old franchise (all mediums)



ANY IDEA or TOPIC relating to Bond will be considered.



Please note the following presentation details:

   - Presentation time consideration: 15 – 20 min maximum
   - There are no honorariums for presenters; this is an academic
   conference. There are however, a number of conference award  
opportunities.
   See the conference website for more information.
   - Please send a 250 word abstract and the presentation title by  
December
   1, 2011 via the online submission link at:
   http://conference2012.swtxpca.org
   - Participant conference registration deadline is December 31, 2011.



Michele Brittany, Independent Scholar, James Bond and Popular Culture  
Area
Chair

Email: [email protected]

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