@inbook{78f6fb6b72ea4bc8934bee9bfd4b20e6,
title = "The Resilient Agent: James Bond, {\textquoteleft}nostalgic geopolitics{\textquoteright} and Skyfall (2012)",
abstract = "Skyfall is unusual, in a strictly geographical sense, because much of the action is situated in the United Kingdom, specifically London and Bond{\textquoteright}s ancestral home in Scotland. While London-based MI6 has borne the brunt of attack and mayhem before (The World is Not Enough, 1999), Skyfall is far more introspective as Bond{\textquoteright}s races to save both M and restore himself after a near fatal shooting in Turkey. Bond{\textquoteright}s resurrection and resilience occupies centre stage in an analysis that uncovers why that matters and the implications that follow for the reproduction of {\textquoteleft}nostalgic geopolitics{\textquoteright} - decidedly backward-looking, resolutely embodied and overtly nationalistic. This appears to call into question what the lone field agent can do in a world defined by mass surveillance, network warfare, permeable boundaries and ubiquitous danger. Since his initiation as a 00, Craig{\textquoteright}s Bond and his boss M have struggled to reconcile the growing public demands for public accountability and executive auditing with the diffuse nature of the threat facing MI6 and by extension the UK – transnational, digital, networked – and difficult to trace and respond to where embodied. In both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, M and Bond find themselves outwitted and even mocked by adversaries that are masters of the double-cross, high level infiltration and disguise. The gritty, morally ambivalent, and flawed character of Craig{\textquoteright}s Bond is a far cry from the escapist, exotic, wise-cracking and laconic incarnations of earlier screen 007s. ",
keywords = "James Bond, Geopolitics , Daniel Craig, Skyfall",
author = "Klaus-John Dodds",
year = "2018",
month = jun,
day = "3",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-76122-0",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.",
editor = "Jeremy Strong",
booktitle = "James Bond Uncovered",
address = "United Kingdom",
}