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Cali Eustis

Final Project

9 December 2018

Dr. Turner

Enhanced Sherlock Project

Original: The Blue Carbuncle (not needed)

Doyle, Arthur Conan. “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.” The Complete Sherlock Holmes, sherlock-holm.es/stories/html/blue.html.

“So much for Mr. Henry Baker,” said Holmes when he had closed the door behind him. “It is quite certain that he knows nothing whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?”

“Not particularly.”

“Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow up this clue while it is still hot.”

“By all means.”

Mine:

Eustis, Cali. “Blue Carbuncle Adaptation.” 2018. iPhone.

Original:

Doyle, Arthur Conan. “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.” The Complete Sherlock Holmes, sherlock-holm.es/stories/html/blue.html.

“Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese,” said he.

“My geese!” The man seemed surprised.

“Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, wh “Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them’s not our geese.”

“Indeed! Whose, then?”

“Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden.”

“Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?”

“Breckinridge is his name.”

“Ah! I don’t know him. Well, here’s your good health landlord, and prosperity to your house. Good-night.”

Mine:

Eustis, Cali. “Blue Carbuncle Adaptation.” 2018. iPhone.

Eustis, Cali. “Blue Carbuncle Adaptation.” 2018. iPhone.

Original:

Doyle, Arthur Conan. “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.” The Complete Sherlock Holmes, sherlock-holm.es/stories/html/blue.html.

“Good-evening. It’s a cold night,” said Holmes.

The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my companion.

“Sold out of geese, I see,” continued Holmes, pointing at the bare slabs of marble.

“Let you have five hundred to-morrow morn- ing.”

“That’s no good.”

“Well, there are some on the stall with the gas- flare.”

“Ah, but I was recommended to you.”

“Who by?”

“The landlord of the Alpha.”

“Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen.”

“Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?”

To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the salesman.

“Now, then, mister,” said he, with his head cocked and his arms akimbo, “what are you driv- ing at? Let’s have it straight, now.”

“It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the geese which you supplied to the Alpha.”

“Well then, I shan’t tell you. So now!”

“Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don’t know why you should be so warm over such a trifle.”

“Warm! You’d be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end of the business; but it’s ‘Where are the geese?’ and ‘Who did you sell the geese to?’ and ‘What will you take for the geese?’ One would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the fuss that is made over them.”

“Well, I have no connection with any other peo- ple who have been making inquiries,” said Holmes carelessly. “If you won’t tell us the bet is off, that is all. But I’m always ready to back my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the bird I ate is country bred.”

“Well, then, you’ve lost your fiver, for it’s town bred,” snapped the salesman.

“It’s nothing of the kind.” “I say it is.”“I don’t believe it.”

“D’you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that went to the Alpha were town bred.”

“You’ll never persuade me to believe that.”

“Will you bet, then?”

“It’s merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But I’ll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be obstinate.”

The salesman chuckled grimly. “Bring me the books, Bill,” said he.

The small boy brought round a small thin vol- ume and a great greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging lamp.

“Now then, Mr. Cocksure,” said the salesman, “I thought that I was out of geese, but before I fin- ish you’ll find that there is still one left in my shop.

You see this little book?” “Well?”

“That’s the list of the folk from whom I buy. D’you see? Well, then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just read it out to me.”

Mine:

Eustis, Cali. “Blue Carbuncle Adaptation.” 2018. iPhone.

Eustis, Cali. “Blue Carbuncle Adaptation.” 2018. iPhone.

Hutcheon:

Original

Hutcheon, Linda. Theory of Adaptation. Taylor and Francis, 2014. Pg. 20

“Of course, there is a wide range of reasons why adapters might choose a particular story and then transcode into a particular medium or genre. As noted earlier, their aim might well be to economically and artistically supplant the prior works. They are just as likely to want to contest the aesthetic or political values of the adapted text as to pay homage. This, of course, is one of the reasons why the rhetoric of “fidelity” is less than adequate to discuss the process of adaptation. Whatever the motive, from the adapter’s perspective, adaptation is an act of appropriating or salvaging, and this is always a double process of interpreting and then creating something new.” pg 20

Mine:

Of course, there is a variety of reasons why adapters might change the story into a specific genre. They do this to replace the previous works. They try to make it as close to the original work as possible to pay respect and honor. Whatever the motive, from the adapter’s perspective, adaptation is an act of saving. There is always a double process of understanding and then creating something new.

Mine: Adaptation example, Pretty Little Liar TV series, compared to the Book.

“Pretty Little Liars | TV Guide.” TVGuide.com, TV Guide, 8 June 2010, www.tvguide.com/tvshows/pretty-little-liars/304160/.

“Pretty Little Liars (Book Series).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Oct. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Little_Liars_(book_series).

McCluhan

Original:

McCluhan, Marshall. “The Medium Is the Message.” Web.mit.edu, web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/mcluhan.mediummessage.pdf.

“It is interesting to note that success in keeping up a respectable front of the customary kind can only be done by a frantic scramble back of the façade. After the crime, after the blow has fallen, the facade of custom can only be held up by swift rearrangement of the props. So it is in our social lives when a new technol-ogy strikes, or in our private life when some intense and, therefore, indigestible experience occurs, and the censor acts at once to numb us from the blow and to ready the faculties to assimilate the intruder. Peter Cheyney’s observations of a mode of detective fiction is another instance of a popular form of entertainment functioning as mimic model of the real thing.”

Mine:

It’s interesting that one has to put up the front of themselves to be seen as successful. After something has fallen, one needs to pick it back up and make it look good again. Therefore, when something intense happens to you, you try not to react like it’s the end of the world. Giving off the impression, that you have your shit together.

An example could be before the Kardashians were famous they were “normal people.” Yet, once they became famous they had to uphold a certain title, and now they are “beautiful.” Using their platform of beauty to enhance themselves more than the usual celebrity to make it seem like its all natural. They are quick to brainwash the public into thinking their “ugly” days never existed, by over compensating on their beauty now and even selling cosmetics to achieve their looks. If someone tried to share an older photo of the Kardashians, their fans defend their beauty for them as if it was a personal attack on their own looks.

Google Image

Google Image

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Media Theory

Original:

Zhao, Yi. “The Chicago School of Media Theory Theorizing Media since 2003.” The Chicago School of Media Theory RSS, 2007, lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/artifact/.

“The word artifact has come into popular use mainly due to wide developments in imaging technologies, starting with the telescope, but especially since the invention of photography, and most recently with the proliferation of digital technologies. Although the applications of such technologies were at first primarily technical and scientific, they quickly became parts of people’s daily lives (the telescope has always been a curiosity for the public, and digital photography has recently become a regular practice for most households). Therefore the current definitions of the word, not totally acknowledged by the Oxford English Dictionary, depend heavily on context, and the contexts in turn depend on technologies with which the artifact is associated”

Mine:

When I heard the word artifact I think of an object, most of the time there is a value of significance. However, artifacts have progressively developed. Way back when a telescope could be classified as an artifact. Now that we have developed more technology over the years there is a lot more that can be classified as artifacts. For example, photography. Photos can be an artifact and it is a daily occurrence in everyone’s lives. Nowadays, people have social media. There is never not a day where you either take a picture, see a picture, or post a picture. However, depending on when the artifact was taken/discovered, if higher/lower technology was involved it could/could not make it an artifact.