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Culture, Space and Memory Research Group | Dept of Communication and Media | University of Liverpool

Wednesday 28 November 2018 at 5pm
Taylor Room, Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool ([log in to unmask],-2.9660157,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m5%213m4%211s0x487b211bfee0e13b:0x77c7d5d9d66f76e2%218m2%213d53.402694%214d-2.963827?hl=en">view map)

What to do with cinema memory?
Professor Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary University of London

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Drawing on findings of my research on cinemagoing in Britain in the 1930s, as well as on other work on and examples of ‘cinema memory’ (including Victor Burgin’s The Remembered Film), I shall reflect on the characteristics of different types of cinema memory and how these variously engage and combine the personal, the collective and the social; consider their conceptual and methodological implications; and perhaps offer some suggestions for future research on media experience.

Annette Kuhn is Emeritus Professor in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy. She was Director of ‘Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain’, and writes on cultural memory in relation to both photography and cinema. Publications in these areas include An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (2002); Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (2002); Locating Memory: Photographic Acts (2006, co-edited with Kirsten Emiko McAllister); and a special issue of Memory Studies on cinemagoing experience and memory (2017, co-edited with Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers). She is currently working on a 2^nd edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies with co-author Guy Westwell.

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