James Bond’s Diamonds are Forever: What is your forever investment?
Is what we consider to be “forever” just a big marketing ploy? My family’s seventh James Bond retrospective excursion has me seeking an answer. Diamonds… Read more
James Bond’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: On being the other fella, hindsight and predicting trends
Australian George Lazenby provides a lesson for us all in how we perceive ourselves, in gaining hindsight, and in predicting trends. The other fella I… Read more
James Bond’s You Only Live Twice: Culture bias – now with ninja!
How has our exposure to media shaped our cultural bias? My current cultural studies guided my thoughts during my family’s excursion through Connery’s fifth Bond’s… Read more
James Bond’s Thunderball: Art reflecting life, turning people into objects
Thunderball is Sir Connery’s fourth foray in my family’s Bond retrospective and is notable as the most financially successful Bond film to date when adjusted for inflation…. Read more
James Bond’s Goldfinger: What do we value?
Connery’s third Bond installment in my family’s recent Bond journey is based on a tried and true premise of “break into Fort Knox, steal all… Read more
From Russia with Love: Have "macho men" gone the way of the Cold War?
Image courtesy of a post at Tribe The second James Bond flick experienced as part of my daughter’s media education process reminds me why we… Read more
What makes a James Bond? The missing elements of Dr. No
Image courtesy of http://meansheets.com/tag/dr-no/ We are exposing my 17-year old daughter to the legend that is James Bond, starting from the beginning with Sean Connery in Dr. No…. Read more
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Theresa
Good post, but I must admit to being…
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