
“Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows…” The Role of Body and Senses in Various “First Contact” Narratives
If we look at the first descriptions about the early audience’s collective or individual responses to moving images at the turn of the century, we see a picture with many layers. Whether they are refuted myths (like the “train effect”), late interpretations (like “astonishment”, “stupefying effect” by Tom Gunning), or subjective, first-person reports (like Maxim ...