Equipping James Bond: Guns, Gadgets, and Technological Enthusiasm

by Andre Millard

Book Overview

James Bond's amazing gadgets reveal both enthusiasm about technology and fear of its potential ramifications.

The popularity of the 007 franchise depends on a seductive formula of sex, violence, and snobbery. Much of its appeal, too, lies in its gadgets: slick, somewhat improbable technological devices that give everyone's favorite secret agent the edge over his adversaries.

In Equipping James Bond, Andr? Millard chronicles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421426641
• ISBN13: 9781421426648
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"