James Bond Theme the primary use of the "James Bond Theme" has been with action scenes. The first appearance of the "James Bond Theme" was in "Dr. No". There it was used as part of the actual gunbarrel and main title sequence. In "From Russia with Love", the "James Bond Theme" appears not only in the gunbarrel pre-title sequence, but as part of the main title theme and in the track "James Bond with Bongos". It is a slower, jazzier, somewhat punchier rendition than the original orchestration. The original Barry arrangement from "Dr. No" is heard during a check of Bond's room for
The James Bond Dossier Big Screen" (2001), by the historian Jeremy Black. Written at the Bond-mania's zenith in the 1960s, "The James Bond Dossier" is the first, thorough, albeit tongue-in-cheek, literary analysis of Ian Fleming's strengths and weaknesses as a thriller-writer. As a mainstream novelist, Amis respected the Bond novels, especially their commercial success, believing them 'to be just as complex and to have just as much in them as more ambitious kinds of fiction'. That was a controversial approach in the 1960s, because from early on, since the mid-1950s, the James Bond novels were criticised by some detractors for their violence, male chauvinism,