主题： The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes 《千面福尔摩斯》

主讲人：Dr. Sean Holmes （伦敦布鲁内尔大学 人文社科学院副院长）

时间： 3月9日下午 14:30—16:30

地点：校本部C512

主办：上海大学通俗文学研究中心

内容简介：

Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s celebrated ‘consulting detective’, is a cultural icon with millions of fans across the world. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, he has appeared on screen more than any other fictional character. Dr. Sean Holmes’s paper will explore the changing representation of Sherlock Holmes in cinema and television, paying particular attention to the BBC’s Sherlock, a television show that has enjoyed extraordinary global success and made British actor Benedict Cumberbatch an international star. Dr. Holmes is also interested in hearing your views on why Sherlock is so popular in China.

主讲人简介：

Dr.Sean Holmes teaches in the Film and Television Studies programme and is presently Departmental Director (Learning and Teaching). He graduated from Durham University with a degree in Modern History. He went on to complete an MA in American History at Bowling Green State University, Ohio and a PhD in American History at New York University. He has published extensively on the politics of cultural production in the United States, focusing in particular on trade unionism in the early twentieth-century American theatre and the regulation of actors’ labour in silent-era Hollywood.

He has recently shifted the focus of his research from the American entertainment industry to the British film and television industries. He is collaborating with Andrew Dawson and the BECTU History Project on a number of oral history initiatives and has just begun a project on working with celluloid which will document the experiences of technicians (cutting-room workers, lab workers, projectionists, etc.) whose working lives, prior to the advent of digital technologies, were defined by handling film.

Research area(s)

The work of technicians in the British film and television industries

Work and workers in the American entertainment industry

Work cultures in the British film and television industries