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- ISBN 9781399561891
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the 1990s, hundreds of men and women from all over Britain recorded their memories of cinemagoing during the 1930s—a decade when ‘going to the pictures’ was everybody’s favourite spare time activity. From these carefully gathered and systematically recorded testimonies, ‘cinema memory’ emerges as a distinctive expression of cultural memory, a discovery that continues to inspire new studies of the remembered cinema experience.
This collection presents current research on cinema memory across a range of historical and national contexts, including Australia, Britain, Italy, Japan and Turkey. It features reflections on how best to record and preserve cinemagoing memories and make them accessible, with a particular focus on issues around digital archiving and research websites.
Professor Annette Kuhn FBA is Emeritus Professor in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination; An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory; Exploring Cinema Memory; and, with Guy Westwell, Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies. Professor Sarah Neely is Professor of Theatre, Film & Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Between Categories: The Films of Margaret Tait (2016) and editor of Margaret Tait: Persona (2020), Margaret Tait: Poems, Stories and Writings (2012) and Reel to Rattling Reel: Stories and Poems about Memories of Cinema-Going (2018) Richard Rushton is Professor in Film Studies at Lancaster University Jamie Terrill is a Research Associate on the AHRC funded Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond project
