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Framed : The New Woman Criminal in British Culture At The Fin De Siecle
In 1901, R. W. Paul, one of Britain’s first filmmakers, releasedThe Countryman and the Cinematograph,a film that reflexively “explains” cinema just five years into this new narrative form. It depicts a countryman at the movies, who mistakes cinematic illusion for real-world phenomena: he attempts to dance with a lovely on-screen dancing girl (figure 1) and flees a filmic train seemingly moving in his direction (figure 2). Bewildered by these images, he tears down the film screen, only to find the projector and operator behind it.
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