James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism

by Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold

Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song that sounds like it wants to return to 1964. In The James Bond Songs authors Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold use the genre to trace not only a changing cultural landscape, but also evolving conceptions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190234520
• ISBN13: 9780190234522
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"