Everyday Magic

Annette Kuhn is Emeritus Professor in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her books include Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination, The Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies (with Guy Westwell), and Little Madnesses: Winnicott, Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience.

Time Out London "An Everyday Magic is a lovely oral history of 1930s cinema-going, when you could get into the pictures with a jam-jar a documentary begging to be filmed." Sight & Sound: "Kuhn is so honourable in her approach one eagerly awaits the sequel!" Journal of British Cinema and Television: "important study of the cultures of cinema-going in 1930's Britain" "represents the first thoroughgoing attempt to apply the techniques of oral history to cinema-going." "provides a fundamental challenge to the way in which the history of film has so often been written." "This is the sort of research into cinema-going that I would like to see...an important addition" Journal of Contemporary History: "an important and groundbreaking book, the fruit of a decade-long ethnohistorical enquiry that attempts to revise our understanding of audiences and cinema-going."