About this book
Brings together reflections on cinemagoing from Australia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Turkey, the United Kingdom and elsewhere
- New research from experts on historical audience research, cinema memory and archives
- First-hand accounts of methodological approaches relevant to cinema memory and historical audience research, including archival development and digitisation, interviews and oral histories, working with memorabilia and ephemeral materials, and creative methodologies
- Offers a range of case studies from the 1930s to the present
- Offers a series of studies into the processes of preserving and archiving materials relating to cinemagoing and cinema memory
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.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Part I. Contexts
1. Cinema memory and the archive; an introduction
Annette Kuhn, Sarah Neely, Richard Rushton and Jamie Terrill
2. Tracing historical film cultures: reflections on the genealogy of New Cinema History, film audiences, mixed methods and triangulation
Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers
3. Against the loss of cinema memory: tracing repetition and diasporic contexts
Daniela Treveri Gennari
Part II. Cinema Memory
4. Remembering a lost cinema space: Trabzon’s Sümer Cinema
Sibel Kaba
5. From the group to the personal to the digital: evolving modes of memorialising viewer engagement with Japanese cinema culture
Jennifer Coates
6. Through the lens of memory: foreign-language films and other worlds in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s
Margaret O’Brien
7. Exploring MIFF: memories of film festivalgoing in Melbourne
Susannah Radstone and Kirsten Stevens
8. Cinema memory through the eyes of the stranger: migration, mobility and the British Empire
Dalila Missero
Part III. The Archive
9. It’s Alive! Creating a (digital) archive for the Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain collection
Annie Nissen and Julia McDowell
10. ‘I must apologise for having this letter typed’: star correspondence, intimacy, and digital access
Lisa Stead
11. Cinema memory, emotion and archives
Sarah Neely
12. Archival engagements
Annette Kuhn
13. Curating a research archive for the future and celebrating digital memories of joy and pleasure
Dagmar Brunow
Index