Linda Wight is a lecturer in literature and film at Federation University Australia. Her teaching focuses on gender studies and popular genres including science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her PhD dissertation examined masculinities in recent science fiction texts, and she is currently researching constructions of masculinity in the Daniel Craig trilogy of Bond films. 
Bond has long served as a cipher for the British nation; therefore his personal struggle also exposes cultural anxiety about Britain’s waning global influence and increasing vulnerability in the twenty-first[…]
