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Sherlock Holmes and the Leap of Faith: The Forces of Fandom and Convergence in Adaptations of the Holmes and Watson Stories

B. Poore

2013.8.1Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies

DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/aps024

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Sherlock Holmes adaptations explore fandom and convergence, analyzing fan cultures and their impact on narrative reimaginings.

Abstract

Using Thomas Leitch’s seminal Film Adaptation and Its Discontents (2007) and Henry Jenkins’ work on convergence and fan cultures as starting points, this   

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POORE, B. Sherlock holmes and the leap of faith: The forces of fandom and convergence in adaptations of the holmes and watson stories. Adaptation-The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies, 2013, 6: 158–171.