With Annette Kuhn FBA 

In the 1990s, hundreds of men and women from all over Britain told researchers about their past cinemagoing lives in interviews, questionnaires, letters, and essays as part of a research project called ‘Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain’. Because of its rapid population growth and cinema provision during these years, the London suburb of Harrow was chosen as a location for fieldwork, and eighteen people living in the area took part in depth interviews, offering up vivid, entertaining, and sometimes intriguing memories of their younger lives and leisure pursuits.

About the Speaker:
Annette Kuhn FBA is an author, educator and editor known for her work in screen studies, film history and cultural memory, with major research projects on cinema culture in the 1930s and memories of cinemagoing. 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’. She is Emeritus Professor in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London.