Hey Church of Bond-ers, I watched Goldfinger and have written a very rough draft of the review, but the full thing won’t go up until next week. Also, Pussy Galore is too awesome of a character not to devote more text and feminist bantering about, so if anyone has some really awesome citations for her portrayal in the movie (especially in contrast to the novel), please dump some links on me.
Hi Eira, Goldfinger is one of my favourites, it’s probably the first film in which the Bond ‘formula’ is set. I don’t have links for feminist critique but can point you in the direction of Janet Thumim,Celluloid Sisters:Women and Popular Cinema (London, 1992), p.204. on the Goldfinger women and J. Chapman,Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films ,London,
I.B. Tauris, 1999, for an academic take on Bond in general!
Awesome, thanks for the links!