We’re used to seeing the actors who’ve played Bond advertising products in character or surrounded by text or images to tie the product in w...

Evidence of the significant place James Bond has in popular culture is found in a number of novels that cannot be called James Bond parodies...

It occurred to me last week as I discussed the Bond traits or memes in Carry On Spying that there are other connections between the Bond a...

The release of Dr No in 1962 and From Russia With Love the following year immediately brought imitations and spoofs from films producers e...

Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine, claims that Ian Fleming's heroines were inspired by Playboy bunnies. The magazine was first pu...

During my time as a student at UCL, one of my lecturers wrote and produced a short comic play every Christmas. I had minor roles in two of t...

In June 2011, the Bilderberg Group, a conference of up to 150 of the world's leading politicians and business people, met at the ski res...