New Sherlock Vid: Hieroglyphic Bonnets
Vid: Hieroglyphic Bonnets
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Source: Sherlock "The Abominable Bride"
Description: He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late.
Music: "I Follow Rivers" by Lykke Li, Alvita Remix
HQ Download available here.
Vid Notes:
Sherlock inspires such ambivalence in me! Maybe ambivalence is the wrong word, because really it inspires stronger feelings. Excitement. Frustration. I saw this episode (on the US clock) right after I'd just finished teaching a first year seminar on Sherlock, and in so many ways I felt like it was made for the Sherlockian fangirl in me, and so perfect for the class! So many references, so many key themes, hell there was even a Mary Russell reference (and we read The Beekeeper's Apprentice.) I'll be able to close with The Abominable Bride in future iterations of the class (for which I've secured the course number 221, but that's neither here nor there--OK, it's totally awesome, I'll admit it.)
But I know many, many people rightfully had HUGE issues with The Abominable Bride, and I totally get why. I share those issues. I see this episode as a partially misguided attempt for the source text to engage with and address its female viewers, its unexpected (unwanted?) fangirls, the elephant in the room, yet show rather spectacularly how they don't really understand them... I'm familiar with that ride from SPN, I have to say. But I feel like there's raw material in this episode--even in the misfires themselves--that just resonates for me--and that made me want to vid it enormously. I've been sitting on this vid since January, lacking the time to tweak it until now, and also because I was a bit hesitant to wade into what I know has been a rough debate surrounding this episode of Sherlock. But now I've sat with it, reworked it somewhat, and am ready to part with it, for better or for worse (I hope for better? :D)
The title references Freud via Mary Ann Doane's "Film and the Masquerade," an article that had a huge effect on me way back when and that I teach regularly and still get a lot out of. I realize that the article isn't available to all, so let's see if this link is going to work...
This entry was originally posted at http://lola.dreamwidth.org/106793.html. Comments welcome here or there.
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Source: Sherlock "The Abominable Bride"
Description: He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late.
Music: "I Follow Rivers" by Lykke Li, Alvita Remix
Click to viewHQ Download available here.
Vid Notes:
Sherlock inspires such ambivalence in me! Maybe ambivalence is the wrong word, because really it inspires stronger feelings. Excitement. Frustration. I saw this episode (on the US clock) right after I'd just finished teaching a first year seminar on Sherlock, and in so many ways I felt like it was made for the Sherlockian fangirl in me, and so perfect for the class! So many references, so many key themes, hell there was even a Mary Russell reference (and we read The Beekeeper's Apprentice.) I'll be able to close with The Abominable Bride in future iterations of the class (for which I've secured the course number 221, but that's neither here nor there--OK, it's totally awesome, I'll admit it.)
But I know many, many people rightfully had HUGE issues with The Abominable Bride, and I totally get why. I share those issues. I see this episode as a partially misguided attempt for the source text to engage with and address its female viewers, its unexpected (unwanted?) fangirls, the elephant in the room, yet show rather spectacularly how they don't really understand them... I'm familiar with that ride from SPN, I have to say. But I feel like there's raw material in this episode--even in the misfires themselves--that just resonates for me--and that made me want to vid it enormously. I've been sitting on this vid since January, lacking the time to tweak it until now, and also because I was a bit hesitant to wade into what I know has been a rough debate surrounding this episode of Sherlock. But now I've sat with it, reworked it somewhat, and am ready to part with it, for better or for worse (I hope for better? :D)
The title references Freud via Mary Ann Doane's "Film and the Masquerade," an article that had a huge effect on me way back when and that I teach regularly and still get a lot out of. I realize that the article isn't available to all, so let's see if this link is going to work...
This entry was originally posted at http://lola.dreamwidth.org/106793.html. Comments welcome here or there.