The Truth Will Set You Free: Implicit Faith in Sherlock and London Spy

Ue, Tom

doi:10.1080/01956051.2017.1319242

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“…Poore also explores fans’ tendency to treat the texts as gospel, asserting that such fan attachments will continue to thrive through the character's presence as a transmedia object in the world‐building of adaptations and fan works (Poore 169). Tom Ue examines the religious aspects of Sherlock Holmes as well; however, his interest lies in the faith John has in Sherlock (of the BBC Sherlock adaptation), not the faith fans have in the consulting detective. Both Poore and Ue focus on Sherlock Holmes's powers of deduction as a kind of spiritual power; however, Ue's work examines Holmes's subsequent power over other characters, while Poore explores the relationship between the text and the fandom.…”

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“The Name Is Sherlock Holmes, and the Address Is 221B Baker Street”: Virtual Reality, Fan Communities, and Tourism

Evans¹

2019

The J of Popular Culture

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“The Name Is Sherlock Holmes, and the Address Is 221B Baker Street”: Virtual Reality, Fan Communities, and Tourism

Evans¹

2019

The J of Popular Culture

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Sherlock’s Legacy: The Case of the Extraordinary Sidekick

Gracia

2021

The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction

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London Spyas a Subversive Spy Thriller

Satayaban¹

2023

Journal of British Cinema and Television

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Although the thematisation of the events of 9/11 and 7/7 and the ensuing topics of mass monitoring and social control have garnered considerable popular and academic attention, few critical accounts concentrating on the BBC2 crime mini-series London Spy (2015) exist. The series might seem as if it is just another crime drama capitalising on real-life sensational subjects such as the whistleblowing phenomenon and the suspicious death of the MI6 agent Gareth Williams; however, taking into account the series' hybridised form of spy and detective narratives, thriller and drama, London Spy appears to be a critical reappraisal and progressive development of the more established spy and detective texts such as the eponymous James Bond and Sherlock Holmes series. The latter group of works tends to evoke the terrorist threats and various conspiracies in order to neutralise them and to reaffirm the normality of the status quo. In contrast, in London Spy, those issues are not resolved so neatly and the state remains an object of criticism. Furthermore, the series features many spies from minority groups as main characters, granting agency and voices to those marginalised within the spy and detective genres, which tend to be dominated by heterosexual male heroes. As a result, it propagates a kind of subversive spy drama that re-politicises both the individual issue of gendered representations and the collective issues of mass surveillance and the undemocratic workings of the state.

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The Truth Will Set You Free: Implicit Faith in Sherlock and London Spy

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

“The Name Is Sherlock Holmes, and the Address Is 221B Baker Street”: Virtual Reality, Fan Communities, and Tourism

“The Name Is Sherlock Holmes, and the Address Is 221B Baker Street”: Virtual Reality, Fan Communities, and Tourism

Sherlock’s Legacy: The Case of the Extraordinary Sidekick

London Spyas a Subversive Spy Thriller

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