Sherlock Holmes The Hero With A Thousand Faces - Volume 2 - 2nd Edition

Edition With Index Added.picking Up The Trail With The Incredibly Influential Films Of Basil Rathbone And Nigel Bruce, Volume Ii Goes On To Explore The Antiheroic Sherlock Holmes Films Of The 1970s, And Then The Somewhat Rocky Journey Of Holmes Into The Medium Of Television (actors Alan Wheatley, Douglas Wilmer, And Peter Cushing All Declared Their Respective Tv Series As The Worst Experience Of Their Professional Careers).television Finally Found Its Definitive Holmes In Jeremy Bretts Portrayal For Granada Television, And Then The Bbcs Sherlock Had Flashed Brilliantly Across The Cultural Sky Before Crashing And Burning In Spectacular Fashion. Still, Despite Its Ignominious End, Benedict Cumberbatchs Version Of Sherlock Holmes Quite Literally Changed The Face Of Sherlockian Fandom Overnight, As Studious Middle-aged White Men Now Found Themselves Sharing Uneasy Ground With A Younger, More Diverse, And More Female Audience.now A Full-fledged Transmedia Phenomenon, Sherlock Holmes Can Be Any Gender, Ethnicity, Or Species, And Is Celebrated In Fan Fiction And Fanvids, As Well As Conventions That Are Far More Inclusive Than Sherlock Holmes Societies Of The Past. Vincent Starretts Poetic Notion That Sherlock Holmes Is A Character Who Never Lived And So Can Never Die Has Never Been More True, And The Digital Age Promises Any Number Of Versions Of Sherlock Holmes To Come.