Download or read book The Playboy and James Bond written by Claire Hines and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title focuses on James Bond's relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond. Examining aspects of the Bond phenomenon and the playboy lifestyle, it considers how ideas of gender and consumption were manipulated to construct and reflect a powerful male fantasy in the post-war era. This analysis of the close association and relations between the emerging cultural icons of James Bond and the playboy is particularly concerned with Sean Connery's definitive Bond as he was promoted and used by the media.