Tag: Annette Kuhn
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Cahier du Cinema 3: viewing list
Looking back over these lists of films I’ve watched this year, the context in which I watched them is as often memorable as – if not more so than – details from the films themselves. This was something that my former colleague Annette Kuhn found in her research into cinema-going in Britain in the 1930s;…
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Everyday pleasures: cinema-going
As the term ‘cinema-going’ suggests, one of the historical pleasures of watching films has been visiting the structures in which they are screened. In An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory, Annette Kuhn’s study of people’s memories of cinema-going in the 1930s, she found that for many of the people she interviewed, the cinemas themselves,…
Bruce Bennett 