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

Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces – Volume 2 by David MacGregor continues this wide-ranging study of Sherlock Holmes on screen. This is the 2nd edition paperback.

Key details

• Author: David MacGregor
• 2nd edition
• Paperback
• 372 pages
• ISBN: 9781804245941

Synopsis

Picking up from the influential Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce films, this second volume moves through the antiheroic Holmes cinema of the 1970s and charts the character’s uneven early path into television, including series led by Alan Wheatley, Douglas Wilmer and Peter Cushing.

It then turns to Jeremy Brett’s portrayal for Granada Television and the BBC’s Sherlock, considering how Benedict Cumberbatch’s version reshaped Sherlockian fandom and helped accelerate a broader, more diverse audience. The book also looks at Holmes as a transmedia phenomenon, spanning fan fiction, fanvids and more inclusive conventions, and reflects on the idea of a character who “never lived and so can never die”. Suitable for beginner to advanced Sherlockians.

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