Professor James Smith's Outputs (2)

'Has left wing tendencies but might be used with caution': J. B. Priestley and the British Secret State (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, J. (in press). 'Has left wing tendencies but might be used with caution': J. B. Priestley and the British Secret State. Journal of the J.B. Priestley Society,

It is no secret that J. B. Priestley often attracted public controversy for his radical political views. A man of the left, he proudly described himself as being 'pink, and a pleasant healthy colour it is too'.1 Consequently, across his life he lent... Read More about 'Has left wing tendencies but might be used with caution': J. B. Priestley and the British Secret State.

“How Safe Do You Feel?”: James Bond, Skyfall and the Politics of the Secret Agent in an Age of Ubiquitous Threat (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, J. (2016). “How Safe Do You Feel?”: James Bond, Skyfall and the Politics of the Secret Agent in an Age of Ubiquitous Threat. College literature, 43(1), 145-172. https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2016.0010

When examining the process of the banalization of warfare, the history of the modern state intelligence apparatus provides one of the most significant examples of such a transition. This article, through analysis of the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall,... Read More about “How Safe Do You Feel?”: James Bond, Skyfall and the Politics of the Secret Agent in an Age of Ubiquitous Threat.