Welcome!
Welcome to FMMC 221: Sherlock Holmes Across Media! This is the course site/syllabus. It is a Work in Progress and will be subject to change so please check back frequently.
Professor: Louisa Stein; Email: louisas@middlebury.edu
Class meetings: Wednesdays 1:30pm-4:15pm at AXN 105 & 7:30pm-10:25pm on Wednesday at AXN 100 (This means that this Spring, Wednesdays = Sherlock days!)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first created Sherlock Holmes in 1886. Since then, the consulting detective has continued to solve mysteries in literature, radio, film, television, and digital media. Indeed, Sherlock Holmes inspired what many think of as the earliest media fandom. Why has Sherlock Holmes continued to be such a fascinating figure for almost a century and a half? How have Holmes and his sidekick Watson (or Sherlock and John) transformed in their different iterations across media, culture, and history? And what does it mean for contemporary television series Elementary and Sherlock to reimagine Sherlock Holmes for the digital age?
In this class, as we immerse ourselves in all things Sherlock Holmes, we'll also be:
Professor: Louisa Stein; Email: louisas@middlebury.edu
Class meetings: Wednesdays 1:30pm-4:15pm at AXN 105 & 7:30pm-10:25pm on Wednesday at AXN 100 (This means that this Spring, Wednesdays = Sherlock days!)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first created Sherlock Holmes in 1886. Since then, the consulting detective has continued to solve mysteries in literature, radio, film, television, and digital media. Indeed, Sherlock Holmes inspired what many think of as the earliest media fandom. Why has Sherlock Holmes continued to be such a fascinating figure for almost a century and a half? How have Holmes and his sidekick Watson (or Sherlock and John) transformed in their different iterations across media, culture, and history? And what does it mean for contemporary television series Elementary and Sherlock to reimagine Sherlock Holmes for the digital age?
In this class, as we immerse ourselves in all things Sherlock Holmes, we'll also be:
- thinking about the value & significance of shared cultural texts
- considering questions of adaptation, transformation, and fan authorship
- examining the history and current state of transmedia storytelling
- considering the purpose of writing in different contexts
- experimenting with digital transmedia authorship
- reading, watching, comparing & writing about as many variations of Sherlock Holmes as we can chase down
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