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The Dead Are Alive: The Exotic Non-Place of the Bondian Runaway Production
Authors:Behlil, Melis; Prado, Ignacio M. Sanchez; Verheul, Jaap
Publisher and Date:(AMSTERDAM UNIV PRESS, 2021)This chapter dissects the opening sequences of Skyfall (2012) in Istanbul and Spectre (2015) in Mexico City in order to argue that Eon's predilection for runaway productions has begun began to influence the textual composition of the James Bond film series. Eon Productions often modifies the narratives and settings of its Bond features in order to exploit the increasingly global availability of funding schemes, tax incentives, and cheap labor, and to secure, on a global scale, profitable distribution ...