It’s a Kind of Magic: Situating Nostalgia for Technological Progress and the Occult in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie’s recent blockbuster success with a revisionist Sherlock Holmes is the latest in a series of popular films and fiction to have reinvigorated a nostalgic imaginary of London’s past that places the former capital of the Empire at the crossroads of a persistent Manichean battle between empi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Markus Reisenleitner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta 2016-02-01
Series:Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies
Online Access:http://imaginations.csj.ualberta.ca/?p=5194