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Volume 4

Remapping Cultural History

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Locating Memory

Photographic Acts

Edited by Annette Kuhn and Kirsten McAllister

300 pages, 50 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-219-3 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (December 2006)

ISBN  978-1-84545-227-8 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (December 2006)

eISBN 978-1-78238-199-0 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781845452193


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“…[this volume makes a] strong contribution… to rethinking the limitations and failures of photographic representation and to challenging our own interpretive assumptions driven by desires to see and read photographs in certain ways. Rather, as the volume makes clear in unique and varied sites of research, photographic meaning and memory, unstable and in constant flux, are marked as much by forgetfulness and absence as remembrance and presence.”  ·  H-Net

“…the discursive style of each of the chapters highlights the value of attention to oral histories…There are many chapters worth investigating in this volume, delivering as it does a specific methodological clout for the study of memory and its mutations over time which result in national deliriums, amnesia and all types of cultural disorders.”  ·  Cultural Studies Review

“The successful combination of varied insights, from work on cultural memory and visual culture to analysis of photographic acts, makes this a unique collection of essays, an exemplary model of interdisciplinary scholarship, and a valuable asset to Berghahn Books’ ‘Remapping Cultural History’ series.”  ·  Canadian Journal of Communication

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As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. These essays develop innovative cultural strategies for reading, re-reading and re-using photographs, as well as for (re)creating photographs and other artworks and evoke varied sites of memory in contemporary landscapes: from sites of war and other violence through the lost places of indigenous peoples to the once-familiar everyday places of home, family, neighborhood and community. Paying close attention to the settings in which such photographs are made and used--family collections, public archives, museums, newspapers, art galleries--the contributors consider how meanings in photographs may be shifted, challenged and renewed over time and for different purposes--from historical inquiry to quests for personal, familial, ethnic and national identity.

Annette Kuhn is Professor of Film Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and an editor of the journal Screen. She has written about photographs in The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality (1985) and Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (1995). Her most recent book is An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (2002).

Kirsten Emiko McAllister is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She has written about photographs, visual culture and museum artifacts in West Coast Line, CineAction and Cultural Values, and is currently writing a book on a memorial that marks the site of a World War II Japanese-Canadian internment camp.

Subject: Media StudiesCultural Studies (General)Film and Television StudiesMemory Studies


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