Soldiers of the Cross

Time, narrative and affect

Bibliographic Data

ID12895616
AuthorsMartyn Jolly (0000-0002-5869-3802, Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume11
Issue4
Pages293-311
Publication date2013-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEarly Popular Visual Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1746-0654 • E-ISSN: 1746-0662
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17460654.2013.838517
OpenAlexW1991065541
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited2

The Salvation Army lecture Soldiers of the Cross (1900) is famous in Australia for incorporating some of the earliest fiction film shot in Australia into an integrated ‘feature-length’ production. However, it was predominantly a life-model lantern-slide lecture; and a close analysis of the slides in sequence, correlated with contemporaneous reports, indicates that it made significant innovations on nineteenth-century modes of narrative, and deployed different modalities of time and realism into a highly affective whole. Soldiers of the Cross was therefore an even more important event in Australia’s media history than has been perceived hitherto

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Art history · Event (particle physics · Feature film · Lantern · Literature · Movie theater · Narrative · Realism · Shot (pellet · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Communication · History · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology

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