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Framed:the new woman criminal in British culture at the Fin de Siecle

Miller, Elizabeth - Nama Orang

In 1901, R. W. Paul, one of Britain’s first filmmakers, released The Country man and the Cinematograph, a film that reflexively “explains” cinema just five years into this new narrative form. It depicts a country-man at the movies, who mistakes cinematic illusion for real-world phenomena: he attempts to dance with a lovely on-screen dancing girl and fless a filmic train seemingly moving in his direction. Bewildered by these images, he tears down the film screen, only to find the projector and operator behind it. Movies that mocked the ignorant or uninitiated film viewer were common at the turn of the century; they served as elementary primers on cinema spectatorship, disseminating a culture and ethics of audience behavior for a new form of narrative entertainment.

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