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Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy from the moment of his first appearance in 1887.

The contributors to this book discuss the ways in which various fan cultures have sprung up around the stories and how they have proved to be a strong cultural paradigm for the ways in which these phenomena function in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Essays explore the numerous adaptations, rewritings, rip-offs, role-playing, wiki and crowd sourced texts, virtual realities and faux scholarship Sherlock Holmes has inspired. Though fervid fan behaviour is often mis-characterized as a modern phenomenon, the historical roots of fan manifestation that have been largely forgotten are revived in this thrilling book.

Complete with interviews with writers who have famously brought the character of Holmes back to life, the collection benefits from the vast knowledge of its contributors, including academics who teach in the field, archivists and a number of writers who have been involved in the enactment of Holmes stories on stage, screen and radio. The release of Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes coincides with Holmes’s 160th birthday, so it is no mystery that it will make a welcome addition to the burgeoning scholarship on this timeless detective.

Introduction – Tom Ue and Jonathan Cranfield

Sherlock Holmes and Shakespeare – Tom Ue

Holmes and the Snake Skin Suits: Fighting for Survival on '50s Television – Russell Merritt

Fan Appreciation no.1

Anthony Horowitz: Author of The House of Silk

Doyle or Death? An Investigation into the World of Pastiche – Luke Benjamen Kuhns

Fan Appreciation no.2

Elle Ann Soderstrom: Author of Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus

Sherlock Holmes, Fan Culture and Fan Letters – Jonathan Cranfield

Fan Appreciation no.3

The Team behind The Young Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Sherlock Holmes in the Twenty-second Century:Rebranding Holmes for a Child Audience – Noel Brown

Fan Appreciation no.4

Scott Beatty: Co-author of Sherlock Holmes: Year One

On Writing New Adventures on Audio: Into the Interstices of Canon – Jonathan Barnes

The Creation of 'The Boy Sherlock Holmes' – Shane Peacock

Fan Appreciation no.5

Robert Ryan: Author of Dead Man's Land

Getting Level with the King-Devil: Moriarty, Modernity and Conspiracy – Benjamin Poore

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Social Science

Popular Culture

Sociologie, société et politique

Television

Film

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Publié par	Intellect Books Ltd
Date de parution	01 janvier 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781306770910
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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SHERLOCK HOLMES

EDITED BY TOM UE AND JONATHAN CRANFIELD

SHERLOCK HOLMES

EDITED BY TOM UE AND JONATHAN CRANFIELD

Fîrst Publîshed în the UK în 2014 by Intellect Books, The Mîll, Parnall Road, Fîshponds, Brîstol, BS16 3JG, UK

Fîrst Publîshed în the USA în 2014 by Intellect Books, The Unîversîty of Chîcago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chîcago, IL 60637, USA

Edîtors: Tom Ue and Jonathan Cranield

Serîes Edîtor and Desîgn: Gabrîel Solomons Credîts Typesettîng: Gabrîel Solomons

Copy Edîtor: Emma Rhys

All rîghts reserved. No part of thîs publîcatîon may be reproduced, stored în a retrîeval system, or transmîtted, în any form or by any means, electronîc, mechanîcal, photocopyîng, recordîng, or otherwîse, wîthout wrîtten consent.

A Catalogue record for thîs book îs avaîlable from the Brîtîsh Lîbrary

Fan Phenomena Series ISSN: 2051-4468 eISSN: 2051-4476

Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes ISBN: 978-1-78320-205-8 eISBN: 978-1-78320-274-4 / 978-1-78320-273-7

Prînted and bound by Bell & Baîn Lîmîted, Glasgow

Fan Phienntoemlelenac:t

Sherlock Holmes

Fan Appeciation no.1 44—51 Anthony Horowitz:Author ofThe House of Silk

Fan Appeciation no.3 80—89 The Team behind The Young Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Contents

5 Introduction T O M U E A N D J O N A T H A N C R A N F I E L D

8—27 Sherlock Holmes and Shakespeare E T O M U

28—43 Holmes and the Snake Skîn Suîts: Fîghtîng for Survîval on '50s Televîsîon R U S S E L L M E R R I T T

Fan Appeciation no.2 60—65 Ellie Ann Soderstrom:Author ofSteampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus

52—59 Doyle or Death? An Investîgatîon înto the World of Pastîche L U K E B E N J A M E N K U H N S

66—79 Sherlock Holmes, Fan Culture and Fan Letters J O N A T H A N C R A N F I E L D

90—99 Sherlock Holmes în the Twenty-second Century: Rebrandîng Holmes for a Chîld Audîence N O E L B R O W N

110—117 On Wrîtîng New Adventures on Audîo: Into the Interstîces of Canon J O N A T H AB A R N N E S 118—123 The Creatîon of ‘The Boy Sherlock Holmes’ Fan Appeciation no.4 S H A N EP E A C O C K 100—109 134—147Scott Beatty:Gettîng Level wîth the Kîng-Devîl:Coauthor of Morîarty, Modernîty and ConspîracySherlock Holmes: Year One B E N J A M I N P O O R E

Fan Appeciation no.5 124—133 Robert Ryan: Author ofDead Man’s Land

148—151 Contributor Biographies

152 Image Credits

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Acknowledgements

Tom Uethanks the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund; the Social Science and Hu-manities Research Council of Canada; and University College London. Jonathan Cranﬁeldthanks Jacquie and Leslie. We thank Gabriel Solomans, Emma Rhys, and our contributors for their hard work, and we gratefully acknowledge permis-sion to reprint updated versions of the following material:

Tom Ue,Sherlock Holmes and Shakespeare. 2011 Cameron Hollyer Memorial Lecture (Toronto: Toronto Reference Library, 2012). Tom Ue, ‘Returning to Year One: A Conversation with Scott Beatty’. The Baker Street Journal:An Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana62: 4 (2012), pp. 26–32. Tom Ue, ‘Holmes’ Return: An Interview with Anthony Horowitz’. The Baker Street Journal: An Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana 62: 1 (2012), pp. 22–27. Tom Ue, ‘Holmes Steampunked: A Conversation with the Team behind The Young Sherlock Holmes Adventures.’ The Baker Street Journal: An Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana 61: 3 (2011), pp. 23–31. Shane Peacock, ‘The Creation of The Boy Sherlock Holmes’. The Baker Street Journal: An Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana 58: 4 (2008), pp. 17–21.

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Introduction Tom Ue and Jonathan Cranfield

‘… do what you like with him.’ (Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Arthur Conan Doyle gave the actor and playwright William Gillette free reign to interpret and to revise the character of Sherlock Holmes in any way that he saw ﬁt, he spoke truer, perhaps, than he could have known. This collection attests to the popular-ity of the characters and ﬁctional world that Conan Doyle created. Theodor Adorno’s theorization of the ‘culture industry’ could have been written with Sherlock Holmes in mind: ‘the more the system of “merchandizing” culture is expanded, the more it tends also to assimilate the ‘serious’ art of the past by adapting this art to the system’s own re-quirements.’ Yet, as Linda Hutcheon argues, an adaptation’s adherence to the original should not be used as a barometer for measuring the work’s worth: we can appreciate an adaptation more fully by reading it as a ‘repetition but without replication’ and, more speciﬁcally here, as a means for new generations of artists to engage in conversation with their literary predecessor. Hutcheon suggests that our appreciation for adapta-tions stems from the new aspects they bring to a text:

[An adaptation] is not a copy in any mode of reproduction, mechanical or otherwise. It is repetition but without replication, bringing together the comfort of ritual and recognition with the delight of surprise and novelty.As adaptation, it involves both memory and change, persistence and variation. (original emphasis).

The ﬁrst decades of the twenty-ﬁrst century have seen numerous incarnations of Holmes. Readers of this book will discover more about the Guy Ritchie ﬁlms, distrib-uted by Warner Brothers, the BBC’s television production ofSherlock(Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, 2010–), the audio drama versions of Sherlock Holmes stories by Big Finish, alongside novels by Anthony Horowitz, Governor General’s Literary Award (Chil-dren’s Text)-ﬁnalist Shane Peacock and Robert Ryan. Their work explicitly references the 1950s radio productions by NBC which featured the likes of John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles. The ﬁctional fertility of the stories have inspired the work of graphic novelists Scott Beatty and Daniel Indro and the team behindThe Young Sherlock Holmes AdventuresHuw-J Davies, Owen Jollands and Jane Straw, (2010), two projects that provide backstories to the sleuth. While all of these projects retain some of the features with which we identify with Holmes, what is striking here is their sheer range: Ellie Ann Soderstrom discusses the publication of the iPad appSteampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus(Noble Beast, 2013). Tom Ue’s chapter explores Conan Doyle and Holmes as fans of Shakespeare, and how they turn to his stories and char-acters in their projects. Russell Merritt tells the story of Holmes’s migration from mo-tion picture theatres to television; Luke Benjamen Kuhns provides a basic vocabulary for our thinking about Holmesian pastiches; Jonathan Cranﬁeld examines fan letters nd directed to Holmes; and and Noel Brown ﬁndsCenturySherlock Holmes in the 22 (Sandy Ross, STV, 1999–2001) both an updating of the stories into the far future and an ideological transformation of Conan Doyle’s stories into didactic, educational lessons

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for school-age children. Jonathan Barnes and Shane Peacock offer critical reﬂections, respectively, on the teaching of Holmes and his recreation of the detective for Big Fin-ish, and the creation of a past for the detective. Finally, Benjamin Poore looks at more contemporary adaptations of Holmes, particularly the BBC’sSherlock, as projects thatchannel manifestations of post-9/11 conspiracy-anxiety. Hutcheon offers the trope of memes to foreground the evolution and mutation of adaptations to ﬁt new times and different places. ‘We retell–,’ she writes, ‘and show again and interact anew with – stories over and over; in the process, they change with each repetition, and yet they are recognizably the same. What they are not is neces-sarily inferior or second-rate – or they would not have survived. Temporal precedence does not mean anything more than temporal priority.’ By following Conan Doyle’s in-junction to ‘do what you will’, the ﬁgure of Holmes has been constantly refreshed and renewed, adapted, like memes, to new cultural moments without a diminishment of his appeal for new audiences. The injunction in the new age of fanﬁction, social media and e-commerce is not simply to consume passively but instead to be a creative participant. The ﬁgure of Holmes, laced with nostalgia, has proven to be the most enduring model for the ways in which this new model can operate.

GO FURTHER

Books

Memories and AdventuresArthur Conan Doyle (Cambridge: CUP, 2012)

A Theory of Adaptation Linda Hutcheon (New York: Routledge-Taylor, 2006)

The Culture IndustryTheodor Adorno (London: Routledge-Taylor, 2003)

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‘IT HAS LONG BEEN AN AXIOM OF MINE THAT THE LITTLE THINGS ARE INFINITELY THE MOST IMPORTANT.’

SHERLOCK HOLMES 'A CASE OF IDENTITY'

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Chapter 1 Sherlock Holmes and Shakespeare Tom Ue