This week in the fabulous Archive Research Centre @LancasterUniLib the physical archive @cinema_memory nears completion. Hours of interviews, pages of documents, boxes of memorabilia—all gathered and recorded since 1994.
Save the date! Screen Studies Conference 2025.
After a pause for breath in 2024, we’re delighted
to say we’ll be back as usual next year.
The 33rd International Screen Studies Conference, organised by Screen, will be held in Glasgow from
Friday 27 to Sunday 29 June 2025.
Outputs & Outreach – Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive. Some new additions, recent and forthcoming—to @cinema_memory outputs and outreach page. lancaster.ac.uk/fass/project…
Just launched: Vol 20, Issue 1 of @Participations_ , the online journal of audience and reception studies (participations.org). This issue boasts 5 contributions, together with a feature on @cinema_memory in the new Conversations section and 3 book reviews (see ToC below).
Participations – Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. Bumper new issue just out, including conversation about @cinema_memory between @AnnetteKuhn7 @SarahRNeely and Dario Llinares. participations.org/
I’ve really enjoyed the essays in Annette Kuhn’s new collection - they’ve certainly informed how I’m now telling the stories on my cinema… | Instagram instagram.com/nigelsmithwalk…
…reflections, presentations & discussions. Our Andrew Quick will be speaking at the event, which is free, but spaces are limited so please take a look at all the details & book a ticket here eventbrite.com/e/exploring-c…
We’re thrilled that our ‘cinema memory machine’ installation Seeing in the Dark will be at The British Film Institute @BFI Weds 28 Feb - Fri 1 Mar.
The installation coincides with ‘Exploring Cinema Memory: Cinemagoing from the 1930s to the Present’ on Fri 1st, an evening of…
ALT 📸by Ed Waring. A model cinema interior. Two tiny figures seated, one wears a hat. They are watching a cinema screen displaying an out-of-focus image of the ITD logo. From installation Seeing in the Dark