Aside from maintaining the project Twitter feed (), 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鈥�, 6-8 April 2022, 快播视频, 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: 鈥淎 Freely Available Website, a Historically Significant Archive鈥�. From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory, 快播视频.
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, 快播视频.
Kuhn, A. (2025, 27 June). Keynote: . Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow.
Peer-reviewed publications
Kuhn, A. (2021). 鈥楩rom Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory: a Conceptual and Methodological Trajectory鈥�, 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). Alphaville, (21), 144-159.
Kuhn, A. (2023). Exploring Cinema Memory聽(Edinburgh: Argyll Publishing).
Kuhn, A., Llinares, D., & Neely, S. (2024). . Participations 鈥� Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, vol.20, no.1 (2024), 117-138.
Outreach events
University of Exeter Research Seminar (October 2019)
快播视频 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 饾槢饾槱饾槮 饾槑饾槱饾槹饾槾饾樀 饾槑饾槹饾槮饾槾 饾槥饾槮饾槾饾樀, with guest talk by Professor Jeffrey Richards (The Dukes 快播视频, 27 February 2022)
快播视频 Creative Writing Workshop (快播视频 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: 鈥淕lasgow Cinema City鈥� 鈥� 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)
, an interview with Annette Kuhn on her own memories of cinemagoing (‘Memory Palaces’ website, 8 May 2024)
(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.
Kuhn, A. (2025, 7January). The clothing aspect. CMDA Project Website.
Creative works
- Creative Writing
La Scala Sauchiehall Street. Short story by Louise Welsh, CMDA artist in residence*
Published in 鈥楧reamfactory鈥�, special issue, of , 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鈥檚 Past. A suite of new drawings by Tom McGoran, former projectionist and CCINTB participant* - Performance
. Commissioned new performance piece by theatre company
*Premiered at ‘From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory鈥� conference, 6-8 April 2022, 快播视频; showcased at HoMER Annual Conference, Rome, 5 July 2022.
For pre-CMDA outputs, please visit the CCINTB timeline.