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“Permission to Kill” Citation
My essay, “Permission to Kill: Exploring Italy’s 1960s Eurospy Phenomenon, Impact and Legacy,” that appears in James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy, has been cited in Rui Lopes’ essay “The Eurospy boom and the evolution of Europe’s transnational identity” in the journal of Intelligence and National Security.
“Building on the vernacular
film framework developed by Mikel Koven to analyze giallo movies, Nicholas Diak emphasizes the
fact that Eurospies were hastily and cheaply made to be consumed in places such as the Italian third
run theaters (terza visione) – the equivalent of grindhouse theaters in the USA – by an audience of
blue-colour [sic] workers socializing among friends and not necessarily adopting the silent, attentive
attitude expected in upper-tier cinemas (hence the primacy of viscerally exciting, playful, and
exploitative content).”
The essay can be read at the Taylor and Francis website, if you have access.
Highlander Call for Papers
Michele has an active CFP on the Highlander franchise. She is looking for essays on the Highlander movies, the television show, comics, everything.
If you’re interested, check out the CFP at her website and please share with others. With a possible reboot on the horizon, this is definitely a book you want to be a part of.
Unofficial Emmanuelle / Black Emanuelle CFP
Sometime in the latter half of 2022 (after I am finished with AnnRadCon 2022) I plan on publishing an official CFP calling for essays on Emmanuelle and its sequels and spinoffs, Black Emanuelle and its sequels, and all other Emmanuelle knockoffs. I already have an interested publisher, but I want to present to them a fully laid out TOC for an ambitious collection as this.
Though my CFP will not go live until later 2022, if you have any interest in being a part of this collection, let me know! Send me an email or social media message (see my about me page for contact info) to let me know your interest. If you have an abstract already, even better.