Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom

essays examines the cultural intersections and fan traditions that have developed around the immensely successful BBC series SherlockReference & Research Book News.

Louisa Ellen Stein, an assistant professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College in Vermont, has written previously on contemporary media culture, including film, television, the internet and videogames. She is a book review editor of the peer-reviewed journal of fan studies, Transformative Works and Cultures. Kristina Busse teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Alabama and has published a variety of essays on fan fiction and fan culture. She is the founding coeditor of Transformative Works and Cultures.

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue: Why Sherlock? Narrator Investment in the BBC Series LYNDSAY FAYE Introduction: The Literary, Televisual and Digital Adventures of the Beloved Detective LOUISA ELLEN STEIN and KRISTINA BUSSE Part One: Transmedia and Collective Intelligence Sherlocks Epistemological Economy and the Value of Fan Knowledge: How Producer-Fans Play the (Great) Game of Fandom MATT HILLS Winning The Grand Game: Sherlock and the Fragmentation of Fan Discourse ASHLEY D. POLASEK Part Two: Sherlock Then and Now But Its the Solar System! Reconciling Science and Faith Through Astronomy ARIANA SCOTT-ZECHLIN Terror, Nostalgia, and the Pursuit of Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock ELLEN BURTON HARRINGTON Decoding the Industrial and Digital City: Visions of Security in Holmes and Sherlocks London ANNE KUSTRITZ and MELANIE E.S. KOHNEN Part Three: Adaptations and Intertextuality Shaping Sherlocks: Institutional Practice and the Adaptation of Character ELIZABETH JANE EVANS Sherlocks Webs: What the Detective Remembered from the Doctor About Transmediality CB HARVEY Holmes in the Small Screen: The Television Contexts of Sherlock TOM STEWARD Part Four: Interpreting Sherlock Good Old Index; or, The Mystery of the Infinite Archive ROBERTA PEARSON Sherlock: Critical Reception by the Media PAUL RIXON Holmes Abroad: Dutch Fans Interpret the Famous Detective NICOLLE LAMERICHS Part Five: Postmodern Sherlock Sherlock and the (Re)Invention of Modernity BALAKA BASU Sherlock as Cyborg: Bridging Mind and Body FRANCESCA COPPA Conclusion: Transmedia Sherlock and Beyond KRISTINA BUSSE and LOUISA ELLEN STEIN About the Contributors Index