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Elegiac, melancholic – Spectre would be a fitting, if strange, end to James Bond

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageViolence. Yes. Glamour. Yes. But the most engaging element of Spectre may be its tone.Jonathan Olley/SPECTRE

The James Bond novels emerged in the 1950s as Ian Fleming’s final “tally-ho” of British imperialism in response to the waning of British power in the onset and development of the Cold War.

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