License to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films by James Chapman (Hardcover first Edition)

Published by Columbia University Press, 2000
Hardcover
First Edition
325 pages
9.5x6.5 inches

Near Fine book and dust jacket. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.

Licence to Thrill follows Bond from the 1962 Dr No, through all the subsequent Bond films, exploring them within the culture and politics of the times, as well as within film culture itself. When James Chapman's rip-roaring journey through the annals of celluloid Bond first appeared in 2000, the London Evening Standard said, “Chapman demonstrates that there is more to the 007 franchise than just girls, guns and globe trotting,” and Stephen O'Brien, writing in SFX magazine called the book “thoughtful, intelligent, ludicrous and a bit snobby. Bit like Bond, really.” Licence to Thrill went on to establish itself as one of the best books on Bond, and one that has made readers think in new ways about 007.