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Poachers in view: the representation of poaching in early British film, c.1903-14
Early Popular Visual Culture Pub Date : 2021-02-17 , DOI: 10.1080/17460654.2021.1876750
Stephen Ridgwell 1
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ABSTRACT

For early film-makers in Britain the countryside was a highly valuable resource. As a modern urban culture acquired a distinctly ruralist orientation, the landscapes and lives of rural Britain became popular subjects for a rapidly developing visual mass media. Within this expanding visual economy, rural settings provided both picturesque space for the screen and interesting situations and characters to fill it. Forming a distinctive sub-genre to the Edwardian countryside film were those that focused on poachers and poaching. Already a popular subject in drama, literature and song, it now attracted the attention of most of the period’s leading domestic film producers. Demonstrating the richly intermedial nature of early cinema, these poaching-based films relied heavily on Victorian game-law melodramas and the regular coverage of so-called poaching affrays in the national and regional press. They also traded on audience pre-engagement via a general sympathy for the poacher coupled with a broad dislike of the game-preserving class. Through a study of three surviving poacher films from 1903, 1906 and 1912, this archetypal rural figure emerges as a significant presence on the early twentieth-century screen. At a time when the politics and culture of the land occupied a central place in public discourse, and when the causes and effects of poverty were being conceived in new ways, the poacher on view was a surprisingly complex and modern one.



中文翻译:

偷猎者:早期英国电影中偷猎的表现,c.1903-14

摘要

对于英国早期的电影制作人来说,乡村是一种非常宝贵的资源。随着现代城市文化获得明显的乡村主义倾向,英国乡村的风景和生活成为快速发展的视觉大众媒体的热门主题。在这个不断扩大的视觉经济中,乡村环境既为屏幕​​提供了风景如画的空间,又为屏幕提供了有趣的场景和人物。爱德华时代乡村电影的独特子类型是那些专注于偷猎者和偷猎的电影。它已经是戏剧、文学和歌曲中的热门题材,现在吸引了当时大多数国内领先电影制片人的关注。展示了早期电影丰富的中介性质,这些以偷猎为基础的电影在很大程度上依赖于维多利亚时代的游戏法情节剧以及国家和地区媒体对所谓的偷猎斗殴的定期报道。他们还通过对偷猎者的普遍同情以及对游戏保护阶级的广泛厌恶来交换观众的预参与度。通过对 1903 年、1906 年和 1912 年三部幸存的偷猎者电影的研究,这个典型的农村人物在 20 世纪早期的银幕上成为了重要人物。在这片土地的政治和文化在公共话语中占据中心地位的时代,当人们以新的方式思考贫困的原因和影响时,所看到的偷猎者是一个令人惊讶的复杂和现代的人。他们还通过对偷猎者的普遍同情以及对游戏保护阶级的广泛厌恶来交换观众的预参与度。通过对 1903 年、1906 年和 1912 年三部幸存的偷猎者电影的研究,这个典型的农村人物在 20 世纪早期的银幕上成为了重要人物。在这片土地的政治和文化在公共话语中占据中心地位的时代,当人们以新的方式思考贫困的原因和影响时,所看到的偷猎者是一个令人惊讶的复杂和现代的人。他们还通过对偷猎者的普遍同情以及对游戏保护阶级的广泛厌恶来交换观众的预参与度。通过对 1903 年、1906 年和 1912 年三部幸存的偷猎者电影的研究,这个典型的农村人物在 20 世纪早期的银幕上成为了重要人物。在这片土地的政治和文化在公共话语中占据中心地位的时代,当人们以新的方式思考贫困的原因和影响时,所看到的偷猎者是一个令人惊讶的复杂和现代的人。

更新日期:2021-02-17
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