Introduction : Specters of 007

Jaap Verheul is a Lecturer in Film Studies Education at King’s College London, where his research focuses on transnational flows of cultural production and distribution in European media industries. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University, and has been a visiting scholar at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Freie Universität in Berlin. He has written on the dual monolingualism of contemporary Flemish cinema (in The Multilingual Screen, 2016), on the co-production of a European heritage brand for television (in Screening European Heritage, 2016), on the fluctuating stardom of various James Bond performers (in Lasting Screen Stars, 2016), and is currently completing his monograph on the formation of European film and television industries after 1989.