Research object 007th

The myth of the movie character is fascinating not only movie-goers, but also scientists. At an international conference in Saarbrücken researchers to search for the mystery of the double-zero agents.

 

Some look at James Bond movies, because they are passionate action fans. Other fesselt rather the Body-trained agents. Joachim Frenk, however, is interested in Bond mainly "from a scientific perspective."

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Bond in "The Man with the Golden Colt"

Therefore, the professor held for British literature and culture at the University of the Saarland, together with a colleague Erlangen, 5 to 7 June in Saarbrücken international James Bond Conference. Those invited are luminaries of the 007-Research in the U.S., Britain and the Netherlands: James Chapman about the British University of Leicester, which is already ten years ago, a fundamental work on Bond published.

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The academics want to discuss questions like: Why should James Bond will never die? As he has after the attacks of 11 September changed? Is James Bond a pioneer of long-distance, because it makes the whole world jets? And how his masculinity is changing over time? "There are many facets that you can catch up scientifically," says Frenk. "In the movies can be found on a special kind of the whole cultural history of the West again."

The Decline of the British Empire was also processed, such as the endangered environment and last of the race for scarce commodities in "A Quantum Solace". Since 1962, 22 Bond movies released.

Previously, the viewer sees a Cold War-Bond experience, he can now globalization Bond prefixed. "007 is our time to the global phenomenon, which has enormous cultural reach."