Jolly, Martyn2021-02-02Martyn Jolly (2019) The Light of the World: transport and transmission in colonial modernity, Early Popular Visual Culture, 17:3-4, 304-321, DOI: 10.1080/17460654.2019.16652491746-0654http://hdl.handle.net/1885/221173Taking 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.This work was supported by Australian Research Council DP160102509application/pdfen-AU© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupColonial modernityThe Light of the World (painting)magic lantern slidesdissolving view showsNicholas CaireGeorge Snazelle2019-10-1410.1080/17460654.2019.1665249