TY - JOUR
T1 - The Light of the World
T2 - transport and transmission in colonial modernity
AU - Jolly, Martyn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/7/3
Y1 - 2019/7/3
N2 - Taking a photograph from the 1906 Australian tour of William Holman Hunt’s painting The Light of the World as my starting point, I explore the special relationship colonial audiences had with magic lantern shows and related entertainments. I examine the sense of 'transport' that audiences felt at collectively witnessing images that had been 'transmitted' to them from Britain. I argue that their reactions were more complex than those felt in the metropole, and in many ways anticipate our own contemporary experience of globalized media.
AB - Taking a photograph from the 1906 Australian tour of William Holman Hunt’s painting The Light of the World as my starting point, I explore the special relationship colonial audiences had with magic lantern shows and related entertainments. I examine the sense of 'transport' that audiences felt at collectively witnessing images that had been 'transmitted' to them from Britain. I argue that their reactions were more complex than those felt in the metropole, and in many ways anticipate our own contemporary experience of globalized media.
KW - Colonial modernity
KW - George Snazelle
KW - Nicholas Caire
KW - The Light of the World (painting)
KW - dissolving view shows
KW - magic lantern slides
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074365929&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17460654.2019.1665249
DO - 10.1080/17460654.2019.1665249
M3 - Article
SN - 1746-0654
VL - 17
SP - 304
EP - 321
JO - Early Popular Visual Culture
JF - Early Popular Visual Culture
IS - 3-4
ER -