Who is Sherlock?
Subtitle: essays on identity in modern Holmes adaptations
By: edited by Lynnette Porter
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780786499076
Subjects: History and criticism; Television adaptations; Sherlock Holmes films; In mass media; Characters; Sherlock Holmes television programs; Film adaptations; Sherlock Holmes
Description: "Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective's identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Who is Sherlock Holmes? is still a viable question. The answers provided by illustrators, scriptwriters, directors, costume designers, set designers, actors, scholars, and fans provide insights into Victorian or modern-day Sherlock"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Paget to screen: a (re)vision of Sherlock Holmes for the 21st century / Clare Douglass Little; title: Modernizing Victorian Sherlock Holmes for Mr. Holmes and the BBC's Sherlock special / Lynnette Porter; title: "I made me" : narrative construction of identity in Sherlock's "The abominable bride" / Felecia McDuffie; title: Inside the mind of Sherlock Holmes / Lynnette porter; title: It's traumatic stress, my dear Watson : a clinical conceptualization of Sherlock / Jennifer Dondero and Sabrina J. Pippin; title: "A 'high-functioning sociopath' "married to his work" : on hegemonic masculinity in the BBC's Sherlock /; title: Deborah M. Fratz; title: The BBC's Sherlock : a "sociopathic" master of the social game / Kathryn McClain and Grace Cripps; title: The evolution of James Moriarty : how villains mirror cultural anxieties / Heather Powers; title: God, grace and Sherlock : religious narrative and identity in BBC's Sherlock / Felecia McDuffie; title: Chosen families, TV and tradition : queering relations in the BBC's Sherlock / Linda J. Jencson; title: Fan fiction as an argument : arguing for Johnlock through the roles of women and explicit sex scenes in Sherlock fan fiction / Alyxis Smith; title: (No) sex and Sherlock : asexuality, Victorian abstinence and the art of ambiguity / Amber Botts; title: Sherlock and the case of the feminist fans / Charla R. Strosser; title: #Setlock and the power of fandom / Jennifer Wojton.