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HOW JAMES BOND SAVED MY LIFE

Davi d Harkin

ISBN 978-1-916668-40-9

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Publication: 28 MARCH 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668409
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 136
Illustrated: None
Thema: JBCC1 Popular culture

Author location: Derry

• An original book on personal growth aimed at
young people exploring the importance of
cinematic role models and cinema therapy.
• The book is split between the author
documenting the challenges in his early life
and how he overcame these challenges with
cinematic therapy, before shifting focus to his
life as a youth worker, discussing cinema with
young people.
• The author is an award-winning writer,
David Harkin is an award-winning filmmaker and qualified informal filmmaker and youth worker.
educator with the Education Authority Youth Service of Northern
Ireland, specialising in film and media. His work is primarily with How James Bond Saved My Life is a unique self-help
young people interested in film and video who wish to further their memoir. The author takes you on a journey through cinema,
studies in media and film. As a filmmaker, David has won the Greer delving into the significance of cinematic role models and
Garson film award at the University of Ulster and the best film award how cinematic characters can empower and inspire young
best at the Yellow Film Festival minds, be it Bond, Batman or Wonder Woman.
in Belfast. David lives with his family in Derry, in the north of Ireland.
David shares his experiences as a non-verbal school child
requiring speech therapy and his childhood growing up in
Northern Ireland during the Troubles to establish the
significance of cinema. David intertwines personal
anecdotes from his past, the bullying at school, and his
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