ABSTRACT 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.

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世界之光：殖民现代性中的运输和传播

摘要 以威廉·霍尔曼·亨特 (William Holman Hunt) 的画作《世界之光》(The Light of the World) 1906 年澳大利亚巡演的照片为出发点，我探索了殖民地观众与魔灯表演和相关娱乐活动之间的特殊关系。我检查了观众在集体见证从英国“传输”给他们的图像时所感受到的“传输”感。我认为他们的反应比大都市中的反应更复杂，并且在许多方面预测了我们自己对全球化媒体的当代体验。