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cinej-160	Schwetman, John D.	“Ever heard of EVEL Knievel?”: James Bond meets the Rural sheriff	2017	25	.pdf	application/pdf	8853	415	59	| ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.160 | http://cinej.pitt.edu ”Ever heard of EVEL Knievel?”: James Bond Meets the Rural Sheriff John D. Schwetman When Guy Hamilton’s Live and Let Die hit theaters in June 1973, it broke away from the conventions of preceding James Bond films, abandoning the more serious tone of Fleming’s novels in favor of more overt parody, goofy car chases, and even motifs from the Blaxploitation tradition that shaped early-70s cinema. “Ever heard of EVEL Knievel?”: James Bond meets the Rural sheriff John D. Schwetman, jschwetm@d.umn.edu Abstract James Bond emerged as an international film hero because he represented an aspirational cosmopolitan ideal offering viewers an opportunity to escape to an exciting international arena of adventure during the Cold War.	cache/cinej-160.pdf	txt/cinej-160.txt