Dissent

Melbourne, Australia

Andrew Bear, “Intellectuals and 007: High Comedy and Total Stimulation,” Dissent, Winter 1966, pp. 23–27. Per Bennett and Woollacott (1987, 15), “According to one critic, Fleming's literary technique — he calls it ‘the technique of erotic distraction’ — maximises [gratification of repressed desires] by gratuitously incorporating ‘sensual titillation into the very texture of the stories’.”