Editing James Bond (section)

=== Criticisms ===
The James Bond character and related media have received a number of criticisms and reactions across the political spectrum, and are still highly debated in [[popular culture studies]].<ref>{{Cite book|title = The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=x9-1QY5boUsC&q=james%2520bond%2520criticism&pg=PA6|publisher = Manchester University Press|year=  2003|isbn = 978-0-7190-6541-5|first = Christoph|last = Lindner}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = Ian Fleming & James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007|url={{Google books|MzWajYxgfOkC|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}}|publisher = Indiana University Press|year= 2005|isbn = 978-0-253-34523-3|first1 = Edward P.|last1 = Comentale|first2 = Stephen|last2 = Watt|first3 = Skip|last3 = Willman}}</ref> Some observers accuse the Bond novels and films of [[misogyny]] and [[sexism]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Why I'm Still Shaken and Stirred by James Bond |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/why-im-still-shaken-and-stirred-by-james-bond |access-date=13 November 2021 |work=Vogue |quote=I understand the criticisms levied at the franchise. Bond is a caveman with an Omega, a misogynist with gadgets, a brute in a tux. |archive-date=13 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113200414/https://www.vogue.com/article/why-im-still-shaken-and-stirred-by-james-bond |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Shaking and Stirring James Bond: Age, Gender, and Resilience in Skyfall (2012)|journal = Journal of Popular Film and Television|date = 3 July 2014|issn = 0195-6051|pages = 116–130|volume = 42|issue = 3|doi = 10.1080/01956051.2013.858026|first = Klaus|last = Dodds|s2cid = 145499529}}</ref> In September 2021, ''[[No Time to Die]]'' director [[Cary Joji Fukunaga|Cary Fukunaga]] described Sean Connery's version of Bond as 'basically a rapist'.<ref>{{Cite web|date=23 September 2021|title=James Bond was 'basically' a rapist in early films, says No Time to Die director|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/23/james-bond-no-time-to-die-cary-fukunaga-thunderball|access-date=24 September 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> The franchise has on occasion also been a target of religious criticism. In 1962, [[Vatican City]]'s official newspaper ''[[L'Osservatore Romano]]'' condemned the film ''Dr. No'', referring to it as "a dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/109137216/ |title=Shame, James |date=18 May 1965 |work=The Courier-Journal |location=Louisville |page=16 |access-date=25 August 2017 |archive-date=25 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825233639/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/109137216/ |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |via=[[Newspapers.com]] }}</ref> However, in 2012, the newspaper went on to give positive reviews to the film ''Skyfall''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Squires|first=Nick|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/9645296/Vatican-lauds-human-James-Bond-licence-to-cry.html|title=Vatican lauds 'human' James Bond, 'licence to cry'|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=31 October 2012|access-date=27 February 2023|archive-date=27 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227195837/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/9645296/Vatican-lauds-human-James-Bond-licence-to-cry.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Geographers have considered the role of exotic locations in the movies in the dynamics of the [[Cold War]], with power struggles among blocs playing out in the peripheral areas.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Screening Geopolitics: James Bond and the Early Cold War films (1962–1967)|journal = Geopolitics|date = 1 July 2005|issn = 1465-0045|pages = 266–289|volume = 10|issue = 2|doi = 10.1080/14650040590946584|first = Klaus|last = Dodds|s2cid = 144363319}}</ref> Other critics claim that the Bond films reflect [[Nostalgia|imperial nostalgia]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Müller|first=Timo|chapter=The Bonds of Empire: (Post-)Imperial Negotiations in the 007 Film Series |editor1-first=Barbara |editor1-last=Buchenau |editor2-first=Virginia |editor2-last=Richter |title=Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires|publisher=Rodopi|location=Amsterdam|year=2015|pages=305–326|doi=10.1163/9789004302280_014|isbn=978-9004302280}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Skyfall, James Bond's Resurrection, and 21st-Century Anglo-American Imperial Nostalgia|journal = Communication Quarterly|date = 20 October 2014|issn = 0146-3373|pages = 569–588|volume = 62|issue = 5|doi = 10.1080/01463373.2014.949389|first = Marouf Jr.|last = Hasian|s2cid = 143363641}}</ref>