Dr. Lisa Funnell
Award-Winning Author | Media Educator & Consultant | “Dr 007” | Director of Communications, G-Woman Media
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For more than two decades, my scholarship has explored the women of the James Bond franchise—not as accessories to 007, but as complex figures who illuminate changing ideas about gender, heroism, race, sexuality, authority, and power. My forthcoming book, The Bond Girl Phenomenon: From Spectacle to Subject (SUNY Press), traces the remarkable evolution of Bond women across more than 60 years of cinema, arguing that they are central to understanding the cultural… Read More
As the final film of the Daniel Craig era, No Time To Die (2021) is deeply referential to Bond tradition. Yet one of its most surprising achievements lies in its treatment of the Bond Girl. Drawing on both the literary and cinematic versions of The Spy Who Loved Me, the film shifts attention away from James Bond and toward the women whose stories have traditionally existed at the margins of the franchise…. Read More
Co-written with Klaus Dodds Water is a critical resource to the sustainment of human, plant, and animal life. While water is plentiful on earth, only 3 percent of it is freshwater and more than half is inaccessible as it is frozen in glaciers. Moreover, freshwater is not equally distributed on earth and six countries account for more than half of the world’s fresh water supply: Brazil, Russia, Canada, Indonesia, China, and Columbia… Read More
As a character, James Bond is not only defined by his actions (i.e. what he does), but also by his social privilege (i.e. who he is) as relayed through his encounters with other characters and especially women. The heroic identity of Bond is rooted in the British lover literary tradition (Hawkins 29-30) which relies on the ‘lover’ stereotype of masculinity and is conveyed through virility. As a result, seducing and sexually satisfying… Read More
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