Adapting Victorian Masculinities: Oliver Parker's Dorian Gray (2009) and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Autor:	Nadine Boehm-Schnitker
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Linguistics and Language History New Woman Psychoanalysis Literature and Literary Theory Watson Communication media_common.quotation_subject Psychodrama Language and Linguistics Pleasure Masculinity Performance art Homosexuality Gray (horse) media_common
Zdroj:	Victoriographies. 5:143-164
ISSN:	2044-2424 2044-2416
DOI:	10.3366/vic.2015.0190
Popis:	This article explores the construction of masculinities in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Oliver Parker's Dorian Gray (2009) in the context of neo-Victorian adaptational strategies. Sherlock Holmes enacts a version of adaptation characterised by a recombination of citational fragments taken from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. Character provides a unifying force, with Holmes and Watson acting as nodal points. Their latent homoeroticism negotiated via homosocial triangulations and the deferral of pleasure within male social bonds is a powerful means of ensuring consumer retention. In that it constitutes a reproduction of Wilde's novel with a difference, Parker's Dorian Gray lives up to a more traditional version of adaptation. It renders sex between men explicit, but tames Dorian's homosexuality in a psychodrama of childhood abuse and the ‘healing’ influence of the New Woman. Within different adaptational strategies, both films reconstruct late-Victorian masculinity by displaying the male characters' physicality, bodily sensuality, and libidinal energies.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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