Virtual witnessing in 'A Harlot's Progress' (1732): Hogarth's Visio-Crime Media in William Hogarth et le Cinéma
Grandjouan, Kate (2024) Virtual witnessing in 'A Harlot's Progress' (1732): Hogarth's Visio-Crime Media in William Hogarth et le Cinéma. Ecrans, 20 (2). pp. 39-57. ISSN 2267-4357
Abstract
William Hogarth’s 'A Harlot’s Progress' (1732) used real-life crime to create a six-part fictional story. The sophisticated techniques of visualization prompted the viewer to reflect and react experientially, like a “virtual witness” (Bender, 2012) at a crime scene reconstruction. This essay investigates the evidentiary value of Hogarth’s re-inscriptions, drawing attention to specific production techniques, criminal process and trial accounts. Understood as early visual criminology, Hogarth’s first serial offers an ascendant of modern crime film as relayed through TV serials like CSI and Court TV.
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