Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces – Volume 2 - 2nd Edition Hardcover

Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces – Volume 2 by David MacGregor continues this study of Sherlock Holmes on screen and beyond. This is the 2nd edition in hardback format.

Key details

• Author: David MacGregor
• 2nd edition
• Hardback format (also available in paperback)
• 348 pages
• ISBN: 9781804245934

Synopsis

Picking up from the influential Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce films, this volume traces later screen interpretations, including the antiheroic Sherlock Holmes films of the 1970s and the character’s uneven path into television. It considers early TV portrayals by Alan Wheatley, Douglas Wilmer and Peter Cushing, before turning to Jeremy Brett’s performance for Granada Television, described here as television’s “definitive” Holmes.

The discussion then moves to the BBC’s Sherlock, its cultural impact, and the way Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal reshaped Sherlockian fandom, broadening it to a younger, more diverse and more female audience. From fan fiction and fanvids to more inclusive conventions, the book frames Holmes as a modern transmedia phenomenon with many possible forms, and looks ahead to further reinventions in the Digital Age.

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