Things have been a bit quiet on the research front due to personal and work-related events but I had the honour this week of returning to my former secondary school, Bristol Grammar School, as a visiting lecturer, presenting my MA dissertation to 150 Sixth Formers. It was a wonderful experience being able to talk about my work and passion with the students at the institution where it all started: Year 9 was when I watched my first James Bond film and the rest, they say, is history. I was also very honoured to be provided with lunch in the Great Hall: a spectacular venue reminiscent of a location in another favourite film series of mine...
All it needs is a sorting hat...
For the lecture, I made my dissertation,
For Queen and Country: James Bond and Nationalism in the Daniel Craig era, a little more presentation-friendly by focusing more on clips and images from Craig's first 3 films as well as producing a short introductory video to provide the students with some understanding of the themes of nationalism traditionally associated with the older films in the series. This is now on my Youtube channel and you can watch it by clicking on the image below:
