Motifs in the James Bond film series light on to clouds in the 1920s. Brownjohn also used the effect in the poster he created for "Goldfinger". Designer Maurice Binder, who had worked on the first Bond film, "Dr. No", had been unable to work on either "From Russia with Love" and "Goldfinger", but returned for "Thunderball", where he retained Brownjohn's concept for the titles. Binder eventually worked on thirteen Bond films and after his death in 1991, the opening credits were done by Daniel Kleinman. This changed for "Quantum of Solace", with the studio MK12 taking control. Kleinman returned to direct the "Skyfall" title sequence, and the
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,