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Critical Media Studies, 3rd Edition
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Critical Media Studies, 3rd Edition

by Brian L. Ott, Robert L. Mack
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
16h 33m
English
Wiley-Blackwell
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12Erotic Analysis

Of course, John thought. Sherlock had seen how frightened he’d been. This was … logical, or something. The quickest way to get John calm so they could get out of there. Why else would Sherlock ever hug anybody? Sherlock’s grip loosened, but he didn’t exactly let go. Instead, he placed his hands on John’s shoulders, and pulled back to study his face. John tried not to look like too much of a mess, even though he felt like a raw bundle of nerves. It didn’t help that one of Sherlock’s hands had moved to the back of John’s neck and was tracing along the top of his spine. It was sending strange electric pulses throughout the doctor’s body. Why was Sherlock doing that? It was the last coherent thought John had before he blinked, and Sherlock’s lips were pressed against his … Before he could even piece a thought together, Sherlock turned on his heel and began to walk toward the exit. John stared after him.

“Are you coming?”1

For casual viewers of the popular BBC crime drama Sherlock, based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, the preceding story fragment probably seems strange and perhaps even a little unsettling. After all, it recounts a sexual encounter between the show’s titular ...

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