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Fleming, adaptation, and the author biopic
No full textThe mini-series Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, which aired in the U.S. on BBC America and in the U.K. on Sky Atlantic in 2014, offered an entertaining and glamorised account of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Focusing in particular on Fleming’s time during the Second World War, a period in which he served in British Naval Intelligence, successive episodes comprised embroidered accounts of his experiences, with a heavy emphasis on scenes and motifs that chimed with the doings of his most famous character. This approach to the author’s life-story foregrounded the same elements upon which previous small-screen biographies of Ian Fleming had focused, especially his creation of Bond. The TV film Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1989) addressed his wartime experiences and subsequent Bond writing, while Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) doubled down on its Bond connections by casting Jason Connery (son of original film 007, Sean Connery) as Fleming in a Second World War adventure with numerous James Bond parallels. Likewise, Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005) and Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (2008) both framed Fleming first and foremost in terms of his literary creation.
With high production values, and a strong cast that included Dominic Cooper, Lara Pulver, and Samuel West, Fleming bore several of the hallmarks of what has come to be called “quality television” (Thompson, 1997) , and was heavily promoted in the weeks running up to its broadcast. However, a contemporary review in Wired by Graeme McMillan saw it as evidence of a problematic tendency in recent biopics. McMillan asserted that while such texts were previously “a mix of entertainment, education and guilt-free voyeurism,” they have become “a contradictory mix of hagiography and revisionism, lionizing their subjects while somehow managing to diminish them in comparison to the products of their imagination” (McMillan, 2014). In this chapter I will look to unpick this contention, and—in particular—to approach Fleming and the author biopic in terms of adaptation
Mother feeding a child at a Conway Kiwanis pancake fundraiser
No full textMother feeding a child at a Conway Kiwanis pancake fundraiser (Tags: Roger Jacobs, Ken Holt, Kenneth Holt, Barbara Holt and Kim Holt)https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/fleming-photos/1011/thumbnail.jp
A photo of the Conway High School jazz band, the Musical Minors
No full textA photo of the Conway High School jazz band, the Musical Minors. Saxophones are in the front, trombones are in the middle, while trumpets and rhythm are in the back. (Tags: Jon Bourne, Mickey Foxworth, Kenneth Slotnick, Sam Hendrick, Steve Dorman, Jimmy Owens, Kathy Lewis and Bill Moody.)https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/fleming-photos/1677/thumbnail.jp
James Bond: international man of gastronomy
No full textThis article is concerned with the representation of food and drink in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. In particular, it examines how the author uses Bond’s culinary knowledge and habits of consumption as an important constituent of his hero’s character. Similarly, the food choices of other characters, notably villains, are shown to be linked, by Fleming, to core aspects of their identity − principally their ethnicity. Bond’s impulse to observe and classify, very much in evidence in the novels’ food sequences, is examined in terms of the texts’ construction of Bond as a skilled identifier of signs
1991-1992: Death of a Salesman
No full textFrom left: Kenneth Albers as Willy Loman and Linda Stephens as LindaDeath of a Salesman;Grayscal
The Term Securities Lending Facility: origin, design, and effects
No full textThe Federal Reserve launched the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) in 2008 to promote liquidity in the funding markets and improve the operation of the broader financial markets. The facility increases the ability of dealers to obtain cash in the private market by enabling them to pledge securities temporarily as collateral for Treasuries, which are relatively easy to finance. The TSLF thus reduces the need for dealers to sell assets into illiquid markets as well as lessens the likelihood of a loss of confidence among lenders.Liquidity (Economics) ; Financial markets ; Federal Reserve System ; Treasury notes
Are Constitutional Courts Civic Educative Institutions? If So, What Do They Teach?
No full textThis volume addresses whether, how, and where laws (variously defined) teach values and shape moral character in late modern liberal societies. Each author recognizes the essential value of state law in fostering peace, security, health, education, charity, trade, democracy, constitutionalism, justice, and human rights, among many other moral goods. Each author also recognizes, however, the grave betrayals of law in supporting fascism, slavery, apartheid, genocide, persecution, violence, racism, and other forms of immorality and injustice. They thus call for state laws that set a basic civil morality of duty for society and for robust freedoms that protect private individuals and private groups to cultivate a higher morality of aspiration. With contributions by Rudiger Bittner, Brian Bix, Frank Brennan, Allen Calhoun, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., Kenneth John Crispin, Jean Bethke Elshtain, E. Allan Farnsworth, James E. Fleming, M. Cathleen Kaveny, Ute Mager, Linda C. McClain, Reid Mortensen, Patrick Parkinson, Thomas Pfeiffer, Robert Vosloo, Michael Welker, and John Witte, Jr
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Horton Carr
No full textMr. and Mrs. Kenneth Horton Carr, who were married in Fleming Chapel of Broadway Baptist Church, will live here after a week in South Texas. Mrs. Carr is the former Miss Gwendolyn Montgomery, 2115 Hurley. Her husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Car of Pontiac, Michigan.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/28737/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Kenneth Ozmon Receives Capital Campaign Donation From Paul Fleming, 1986
No full textb&w photographExcellent conditionDr. Ken Ozmon (left, SMU President 1979-2000) receives a Capital Campaign donation from Paul Fleming (right, Atlantic Regional Manager of Canadian Liquid Air Ltd.).Taped on the back of the photo is a typed caption on newsprint which begins: 'Mr. Paul Fleming (R), Atlantic regional Manager of Canadian Liquid Air Ltd. ...
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