Open AccessFILMS ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES FROM 1900 TO 1920 IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CINEMATIC ART
Author(s) -
Sergei N. Roman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
artikulʹt
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-6165
DOI - 10.28995/2227-6165-2020-3-117-123
Subject(s) - cinematography , period (music) , film genre , realism , character (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , literature , art , action (physics) , aesthetics , movie theater , history , visual arts , physics , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
The article deals with the artistic specifics of the films about Sherlock Holmes made during the first two decades of cinematography. These films are researched through the lenses of the general tendencies of the development of cinematic art characteristic of the mentioned period, as opposed to low-grade works lacking any aesthetic trait virtues. In the 1910s, as the role of realism in the delivery of the material in cinematography increases, the films about Sherlock Holmes appear to be disconnected from the action film genre – they acquire the detective basis proper and mostly dwell on the disclosure of the personality of the main character. The first film serials become a model for the genre of detective feuilleton, which was considered to be universal, capable of revealing the cultural specifics of the epoch.