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Screening Sherlock

A cultural history of the Great Detective on film and television

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Screening Sherlock is the first scholarly history of the many film and television adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Great Detective. Cultural historian James Chapman maps the screen career of fiction's most celebrated sleuth from the silent era to the contemporary period. He explores the diverse adaptation strategies of the film and television industries in Britain and the United States and shows how screen Holmes has ranged from fidelity to the source texts to postmodern pastiche and parody. All the 'classic' Holmes impersonators are included - from William Gillette and Basil Rathbone t...