Sherlock Holmes on Screen: The Complete Film and TV History (Book Preview)
Sherlock Holmes is an endearing and long-running character of both movies and television. Originally created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Holmes first lived as a character in four novels and 56 short stories. Since then, his legacy has grown. As Alan Barnes, the author of "Sherlock Holmes On Screen: The Complete Film & Television History", notes "Holmes has enjoyed a big screen career rivaled only by Bram Stoker's Count Dracula".
In present day, two different adaptations of Holmes live on. The first is the film franchise revived by director Guy Ritchie, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. The second is the BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Those are but two of the many, many adaptations of Doyle's famed character over the years.
How to catalog the others? Well, this book does it for you.
Sherlock Holmes is an endearing and long-running character of both movies and television. Originally created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Holmes first lived as a character in four novels and 56 short stories. Since then, his legacy has grown. As Alan Barnes, the author of "Sherlock Holmes On Screen: The Complete Film & Television History", notes "Holmes has enjoyed a big screen career rivaled only by Bram Stoker's Count Dracula".
In present day, two different adaptations of Holmes live on. The first is the film franchise revived by director Guy Ritchie, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. The second is the BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Those are but two of the many, many adaptations of Doyle's famed character over the years.
How to catalog the others? Well, this book does it for you.
- 2/29/2012
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
By Mark Mawston
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Cinema Retro is always on the lookout for classic and cult movies being screened in unique ways by film clubs and societies. We seem to have found one that could really top them all- literally at a dead end!
I learned about The Flicker Club via the B-Movie Podcast (www.bmoviecast.com) recently and I was intrigued. This February they ran a short season of Hammer Films. Nothing exceptional about that, you may say, bar the fact that they have screened rarities such as The Reptile, The Witches and the obscure The Lost Continent. If that wasn’t enough, in conjunction with Hammer, they screened the newly restored Dracula from 1958 with found footage that was missing for decades.. However- wonderful though this is - it is the location and the way in which the Flicker Club screened these gems that elevates them beyond the norm.
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Cinema Retro is always on the lookout for classic and cult movies being screened in unique ways by film clubs and societies. We seem to have found one that could really top them all- literally at a dead end!
I learned about The Flicker Club via the B-Movie Podcast (www.bmoviecast.com) recently and I was intrigued. This February they ran a short season of Hammer Films. Nothing exceptional about that, you may say, bar the fact that they have screened rarities such as The Reptile, The Witches and the obscure The Lost Continent. If that wasn’t enough, in conjunction with Hammer, they screened the newly restored Dracula from 1958 with found footage that was missing for decades.. However- wonderful though this is - it is the location and the way in which the Flicker Club screened these gems that elevates them beyond the norm.
- 2/29/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
First appearing in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes eventually featured in four novels and 56 short stories and the legacy of the sleuthing detective is unparalleled, and the devotion of his fans is, to this day, truly remarkable. Holmes has been adapted and appropriated endlessly, either in straight reworks of the original stories, or riffs, parodies, or spin-offs. It’s telling that just this moment there are two highly visible Holmes in popular culture – Robert Downey Jr’s brawling take in “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Thrones” and Benedict Cumberbatch’s erudite modern incarnation on the BBC series “Sherlock” (it just wrapped its second season). So it’s no small task to try and catalog the various on-screen Holmes appearance. Thankfully, Alan Barnes is up to the challenge with his wonderful new compendium, “Sherlock Holmes on Screen: The Complete Film and TV History.” Sherlock himself would...
- 1/30/2012
- The Playlist
Sherlock Holmes On Screen
Written by Alan Barnes | Published by Titan Books | Format: 320pp, Paperback
When starting to write this review I thought I’d check something, just who is the most filmed character? And yes, as you are reading a review of a book called Sherlock Homes on Screen it would be in fact this character. All over the world, in TV series, films and even cartoons Sherlock has become a phenomenon and a character that is always popular not only with the people who watch but with the people who put him onto our screens as well.
Through the past few years of course he’s been brought to prominence through Guy Richie’s flawed but entertaining movies and the BBC show Sherlock created by Steven Moffat. In this new edition of the book Moffat does a foreword describing a conversation both he and Mark Gatiss had which...
Written by Alan Barnes | Published by Titan Books | Format: 320pp, Paperback
When starting to write this review I thought I’d check something, just who is the most filmed character? And yes, as you are reading a review of a book called Sherlock Homes on Screen it would be in fact this character. All over the world, in TV series, films and even cartoons Sherlock has become a phenomenon and a character that is always popular not only with the people who watch but with the people who put him onto our screens as well.
Through the past few years of course he’s been brought to prominence through Guy Richie’s flawed but entertaining movies and the BBC show Sherlock created by Steven Moffat. In this new edition of the book Moffat does a foreword describing a conversation both he and Mark Gatiss had which...
- 1/6/2012
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
The Art Of Hammer
Written by Marcus Hearn | Released by Titan Books
Released in time to coincide with Hammer return to the big screen with Let Me In, The Art of Hammer is a gorgeous coffee table book, annotated by Marcus Hearn, that takes a look at Hammer’s movie posters over the years – a massive three decades of design, from 1950 through to 1979. The Art of Hammer is the first ever collection of Hammer film posters – with almost 300 examples crammed into one huge 190+ page hardback book that deserves a place in any film fans collection.
Surprisingly, The Art of Hammer isn’t just jam-packed with variation upon variation of the classic Hammer Horror movie posters – Dracula, Frankenstein et al, the book actually runs the entire gamut of Hammer’s output – thrillers, horror, exploitation, bawdy comedies and more! And whilst the genres may change, there still something very “Hammer” about each...
Written by Marcus Hearn | Released by Titan Books
Released in time to coincide with Hammer return to the big screen with Let Me In, The Art of Hammer is a gorgeous coffee table book, annotated by Marcus Hearn, that takes a look at Hammer’s movie posters over the years – a massive three decades of design, from 1950 through to 1979. The Art of Hammer is the first ever collection of Hammer film posters – with almost 300 examples crammed into one huge 190+ page hardback book that deserves a place in any film fans collection.
Surprisingly, The Art of Hammer isn’t just jam-packed with variation upon variation of the classic Hammer Horror movie posters – Dracula, Frankenstein et al, the book actually runs the entire gamut of Hammer’s output – thrillers, horror, exploitation, bawdy comedies and more! And whilst the genres may change, there still something very “Hammer” about each...
- 11/3/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
A major new book about the history of Hammer films has just been published. One of Cinema Retro's London correspondents, Adrian Smith, was at the star-studded London book launch and brings you the inside story.
On the 27th October 2007 a crowd of Hammer film fans gathered at the Cine Lumiere in South Kensington, a stone’s throw from The Natural History Museum and the V&A. The occasion was the launch of The Hammer Story by film historians Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes, and to celebrate a number of Hammer alumni were gathered to meet fans and sign autographs, along with the screening of three films rarely shown and not available commercially: A Case for P.C. 49 (1951), The Two Faces of Doctor Jekyll (1960) and Never take Sweets From a Stranger (1960).
Hammer documentary maker Don Fearney (left) talks with legendary screenwriter Jimmy Sangster. (Photo copyright Adrian Smith)
Amongst the guests was Jimmy Sangster,...
On the 27th October 2007 a crowd of Hammer film fans gathered at the Cine Lumiere in South Kensington, a stone’s throw from The Natural History Museum and the V&A. The occasion was the launch of The Hammer Story by film historians Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes, and to celebrate a number of Hammer alumni were gathered to meet fans and sign autographs, along with the screening of three films rarely shown and not available commercially: A Case for P.C. 49 (1951), The Two Faces of Doctor Jekyll (1960) and Never take Sweets From a Stranger (1960).
Hammer documentary maker Don Fearney (left) talks with legendary screenwriter Jimmy Sangster. (Photo copyright Adrian Smith)
Amongst the guests was Jimmy Sangster,...
- 11/13/2007
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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