Interview with Prof. Burnett on his new James Bond project

Interview with Prof. Burnett on his new James Bond project

In this interview, Prof. Burnett discusses his Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, and the impact of the James Bond franchise on serial fiction.

Briefly, what is your project about?

My project is about the art of storytelling in the James Bond franchise. Now, for some, that will sound rather odd as an area of focus. Sure, the Bond phenomenon is fascinating for how it reflects 20th and 21st century culture — the Cold War, the sexual liberation of the 1960s, the 1980s obsession with Grace Jones, George W. Bush’s War on Terror, etc. — but the franchise ultimately is of little interest as storytelling art.

Well, I challenge this assumption.

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