The third adaptation is from the BBC series, Sherlock Season Two episode two, “The Hounds of Baskerville” (2012) starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. It aired on May 13, 2012. The Gatiss and Moffat story begins with a flashback to a child running … [Read more…]
The third adaptation of Doyle’s story, A Study in Scarlet (1887) is the first episode of the first season of the BBC series Sherlock in 2010 titled, A Study in Pink. Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat are the screenwriters for the series. Steven Moffat is well known for his reboot of the Doctor Who series on … [Read more…]
This Victorian textuality is evident in the stories written during this time period. This paper explores the topic of Foucault’s authorship-function as illustrated by Doyle’s “signs” in three canonical Sherlock stories and their cinema and television adaptations spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This concept defines where signs and signifiers are embedded and informed by … [Read more…]
