Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive

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.

The next ⁦@cinema_memory⁩ event is on 9 July. Tuesday Talk: Cinemagoing in Harrow in the 1930s - Headstone Manor Museum headstonemanor.org/events/tuesday…

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/projects/…

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

Tuesday Talk: Cinemagoing in Harrow in the 1930s - Headstone Manor Museum. Coming up in July ⁦@AnnetteKuhn7⁩ ⁦@FilmStudiesQMUL⁩ ⁦@QMUL_HSS⁩ ⁦@HeadstoneManor1⁩ ⁦@SarahRNeely⁩ headstonemanor.org/events/tuesday…

Lecturer in Film Studies job! Come and work at Keele! jobs.ac.uk/job/DHN466/lec…

@louisewelsh00 @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds @AnnetteKuhn7 @SarahRNeely Thank you, Louise. It is a delight to hear this gem of a story so beautifully read.

My short story La Scala Sauchiehall Street is on @BBCRadio4 at 3.45 today & afterwards via @BBCSounds It was inspired by material in @cinema_memory with thanks to @AnnetteKuhn7 & @SarahRNeely bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Enjoy listening to ⁦ ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ broadcast of short story by ⁦@louisewelsh00⁩ inspired by the ⁦@cinema_memory⁩ archive ⁦@FilmStudiesQMUL⁩ ⁦@LICAatLancaster⁩ ⁦@UofGlasgow⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

News & Events – Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive. The latest ⁦@cinema_memory⁩ blog is out today: @AnnetteKuhn7⁩ on an archival quest. @QMUL_HSS⁩ ⁦@FilmStudiesQMUL⁩ ⁦⁦@SarahRNeely⁩ ⁦@dtreveri⁩ ⁦⁦@PhilippeMeers⁩ lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/…

This week in the @iamhist Blog, @AnnetteKuhn7 writes on her archival quest @UkNatArchives to find out more about actor Stephen Haggard, mentioned by Beatrice Cooper, whose cinemagoing memories have been digitised by @cinema_memory project @LancasterUni: wp.me/p9dj7j-263

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…

@MWillJones 😍

…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-ci…

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…

'Exploring Cinema Memory' at BFI Southbank on Friday 1 March: reflections, presentations and discussions around memories of cinemagoing in the 30s. @FilmStudiesQMUL @LICAatLancaster @SarahRNeely @AnnetteKuhn7 @ImitatingtheDog Details and booking link: lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/…

Thomas McGoran’s Drawings – Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: have a look at ‘Cinemas of Glasgow’s Past’, a suite of drawings commissioned for @cinema_memory. @ScottishCinemas @LICAatLancaster @FilmStudiesQMUL lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/…

CINEMATIC ORGANISMS: Memories and Memorialisation – Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive Have a look at @filmstudiesff marvellous video essay made for @cinema_memory @FilmStudiesQMUL @SarahRNeely @LICAatLancaster lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/…