Aside from maintaining the project Twitter feed (@cinema_memory), the CMDA project has undertaken a variety of online and face-to-face activities to disseminate its work, augmented by commissioned creative written, audio, and audiovisual pieces from external collaborators.
CMDA Conferences/Symposia
‘Cinema Memory: 1930s Britain and Beyond – A Symposium’, 22-23 January 2021, online.
‘From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory’, 6-8 April 2022, Lancaster University, UK.
Conference presentations and papers
Neely, S. (2019, 30 October). Memory, Archives and Creativity, for Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive Project. Bill Douglas Cinema Museum.
Kuhn, A. (2019, 22 November). Keynote: What is Cinema Memory? Mining Memories Symposium, University College Cork.
Kuhn, A. (2020, 19 February). Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: a genealogy. University of Sussex.
Neely, S. (2020, 19 February). Memory, Archives and Creativity, for Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive Project. University of Sussex.
Kuhn, A. (2021, 27 May). The Bridge and the Passport: Thoughts on the Remembered Cinematic Experience. HoMER Annual Conference.
Neely, S. (2021, 27 May). Cinema Memory, Sound and the Embodiment of Place. HoMER Annual Conference.
Kuhn, A. (2022, 8 April). Keynote: “A Freely Available Website, a Historically Significant Archive”. From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory, Lancaster University.
Kuhn, A. (2022, 22 November). The Bridge and the Passport: Thoughts on the Remembered Cinematic Experience. School of Art, Media and American Studies, University of East Anglia.
Kuhn, A. (2024, 29 April). Keynote: Life History Methods in Audience Research: Origins and Principles. Researching Media Audiences, Lancaster University.
Peer-reviewed publications
Kuhn, A. (2021). ‘From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory: a Conceptual and Methodological Trajectory’, in Kate Egan, Martin Smith and Jamie Terrill (eds), Researching Historical Screen Audiences: Archives, Memories and Methods (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).
McDowell, J., & Nissen, A. (2021). A Digital Archive Is Born: Revisiting the ‘Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain’ Collection. Alphaville, (21), 144-159.
Kuhn, A. (2023). Exploring Cinema Memory (Edinburgh: Argyll Publishing).
Kuhn, A., Llinares, D., & Neely, S. (2024). Reflections on researching cinema memory and the (r)evolution of digital archiving. Participations – Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, vol.20, no.1 (2024), 117-138.
Outreach events
University of Exeter Research Seminar (October 2019)
Lancaster University Digital Humanities Forum (November 2019)
University of Sussex Research Seminar (19 February 2020)
Glasgow Creative Writing Workshops (Glasgow Women’s Library, 5 December 2020 and 15 January 2021)
Bolton Screening Event (Bolton Little Theatre, 16 October 2021)
Screening of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵, with guest talk by Professor Jeffrey Richards (The Dukes Lancaster, 27 February 2022)
Lancaster Creative Writing Workshop (Lancaster University Library, 5 April 2022)
London Screening Event: London Cinemagoers and “Films From Many Nations” (Queen Mary University of London, Mile End campus, 26 May 2022)
Glasgow Screening Event: An Afternoon at the Cosmo in the 1930s (Glasgow Film Theatre, 7 October 2022)
Exhibition: “Glasgow Cinema City” — drawings by Thomas McGoran, former projectionist and CCINTB participant (Glasgow School of Art, 1-11 October 2022)
Exploring Cinema Memory : British Cinemagoing from the 1930s to the present (BFI Southbank, 1 March 2024)
Cinema Memories: Annette Kuhn, an interview with Annette Kuhn on her own memories of cinemagoing (‘Memory Palaces’ website, 8 May 2024)
Cinemagoing in Harrow in the 1930s (Headstone Manor Museum Harrow, 9 July 2024)
Online seminar: Memorias de ir al cine (University of Chile, 29 November 2024)
Research-themed blog posts
Kuhn, A. (2020, 23 October). A Key Aspect of CCINTB’s Research Design. CMDA Project Website.
Kuhn, A. (2021, 1 March). The Distinctive Tastes of British Cinemagoers. CMDA Project Website.
Kuhn, A. (2021, 7 June). Deanna Durbin and her British fans. CMDA Project Website.
Kuhn, A. (2021, 30 July). CCINTB’s 1995 Questionnaire Survey. CMDA Project Website.
Kuhn, A. (2022, 16 September). Chroniclers of Picturegoing. CMDA Project Website.
Kuhn, A. (2023, 1 June). The Elite, the Cosy and the Cosy Bus. CMDA Project Website.
Kuhn, A. (2023, 15 September). The Composed and the Heartfelt. CMDA Project Website.
Kuhn, A. (2024, 4 April). A “Curious Death”. CMDA Project Website.
Kuhn, A. (2024, 7 November). “Terrible waste of a brain!” CMDA Project Website.
Creative works
- Creative Writing
La Scala Sauchiehall Street. Short story by Louise Welsh, CMDA artist in residence*
Published in ‘Dreamfactory’, special issue, of Lune: A Journal of Literary Misrule, no.6, January 2023: 1-4. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 4 April 2024. - Audio Works
Glasgow Audio Tour and Features
Bolton Audio Tour - Audiovisual Works
Animation of Deanna Durbin dress-up doll by Jamie Terrill, CMDA Research Associate
CINEMATIC ORGANISMS: Memories and Memorialisation. Videographic essay by Catherine Grant, CMDA artist in residence*
Thomas McGoran. Film by Marissa Keating, CMDA artist in residence* - Visual Works
Cinemas of Glasgow’s Past. A suite of new drawings by Tom McGoran, former projectionist and CCINTB participant* - Performance
Seeing in the Dark. Commissioned new performance piece by Imitating the Dog theatre company
*Premiered at ‘From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory’ conference, 6-8 April 2022, Lancaster University; showcased at HoMER Annual Conference, Rome, 5 July 2022.
For pre-CMDA outputs, please visit the CCINTB timeline.