Family Secrets :Acts of Memory and Imagination
Family Secrets :Acts of Memory and Imagination
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Published:
17 November, 2002
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781859844069 |
| ISBN10 | 1859844065 |
| Number Of Pages | 192 |
| Item Weight | 213 g |
| Product Dimensions | 137 x 191 x 13 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Verso Books |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | 2nd New edition |
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An absorbing and beautiful book that reshapes the relations between feminism and cultural studies. Kuhn's 'memory work' teaches us new ways of learning to make our own personal and collective histories. -- Meaghan Morris
An accessible, self-questioning, thoughtful book which takes one on a fascinating, labyrinthine journey from the family photograph album to filmic representations of the past. -- Raphael Samuel
Kuhn ... is one of those rare academics whose prose is a pleasure to read: clear, evocative and accessible. * New Statesman *
Family Secrets is not only a poignant personal memoir, it is also an exemplary act of engaged cultural criticism. An influential reader of visual culture, a prominent feminist critic, an imaginative analyst of autobiographical and photographic texts, Kuhn provides a blueprint for interpreting the complicated stories we live by, stories who tangled roots lie in our childhood. Brilliantly connecting private history and public event, intimate memory and social theory, Annette Kuhn performs a tour de force. -- Nancy K. Miller
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Author's Bio
Annette Kuhn's books include Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema; Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality; The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality; Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema; Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination; An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory; Locatine Memory: Photographic Acts; and Little Madnesses: Winnicott, Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience. She is Emeritus Professor in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy.