Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom by Stein Louisa Ellen Busse Kristina

Author:Stein, Louisa Ellen, Busse, Kristina
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

Introduction

Sherlock Holmes has long exerted an influence on the BBC’s science fiction series Doctor Who. With the advent of Sherlock, the Doctor in his turn exerts an influence on the Great Detective. This extends from the archetypes and aesthetics populating both series to comparable relationships with the news and entertainment media seeking to report on or otherwise publicize the shows. It is evident in Sherlock’s emulation of the transmedia storytelling techniques successfully employed by the makers of the revived, post–2005 Doctor Who and apparent in commonalities in the production teams working on both franchises, commonalities that extend from the programs themselves to supporting transmedial material. A key recurring feature is, of course, Steven Moffat, who acts as the chief creative force driving the two programs.

Central to the ways in which Moffat’s Sherlock echoes Moffat’s Doctor Who are the acts of remembering, misremembering, and forgetting. As well as existing in relationship to each other, both programs exist in relation to the wider mediascape, in which their histories are necessarily implicated. In this essay I will go in search of the transmedial links, intertextual references, intramedial connections and production contexts through which the world’s only consulting detective remembers the last of the Time Lords. In my quest for evidence, I will utilize perspectives from the burgeoning field of memory studies in an analysis of the official Sherlock web sites written by Joseph Lidster, who also authored many comparable Doctor Who web sites. Through these discussions I will seek clues as to how contemporary media franchises transmedially remember their own history and also the past and present of other media.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.