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Our Sherlockian eyes: the surveillance of vision
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posted on 2015-01-01, 00:00 authored by Sean RedmondSean Redmond, J Sita, Kim Vincsor this inter-disciplinary article, we undertook a pilot case study that eye-tracked the ‘Holmes Saves Mrs. Hudson’ sequence from the episode, A Scandal in Belgravia (Sherlock, BBC, 2012). This small-scale empirical study involved a total of 13 participants (3 males and 10 females, mean age was: 27 years), comprised of a mixture of academics and undergraduate students at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. The article examines its findings through a range of threaded frames – neuroscience, forensics, surveillance, haptics, memory, performance-movement, and relationality – and uniquely draws upon the interests of the authors to set the examination in context. The article is both a reading of Sherlock and a dialogue between its authors. We discover that the codes and conventions of Sherlock have a direct impact on where viewers look but we also discover eyes emerging in the periphery of the frame, and we account for these ways of seeing in different ways.
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Refractory: a journal of entertainment mediaVolume
25Issue
1Pagination
1 - 14Publisher
University of MelbourneLocation
Melbourne, Vic.ISSN
1447-4905Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
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