Little Madnesses

Annette Kuhn is Emeritus Professor in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has published widely in the areas of cultural theory, visual culture, film history and cultural memory, with authored books including Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination; An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory; Ratcatcher; and (with Guy Westwell) The Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies. She has edited and co-edited many anthologies, special issues of journals and reference books, including Locating Memory: Photographic Acts (with Kirsten Emiko McAllister) and Screen Theorizing Today.

• Foreword by Lesley CaldwellAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsLittle Madnesses: An Introduction Annette KuhnPart 1: Spaces and Frames2. Spaces and Frames: An Introduction Annette Kuhn3. The Location of Virtual Experience Victor Burgin4. The Playing Spectator Phyllis Crème5. Home is Where We Start From Annette Kuhn6. Soundspace Amal Treacher KabeshPart 2: Media Users7. Media Users: An Introduction Matt Hills8. Pleasure and Adult Development C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby9. Recoded Transitional Objects & Fan Re-readings of Puzzle Films Matt Hills10. The Reality of the Experience of Fiction Serge Tisseron11. On the Use of a Film: Cultural Experiences as Symbolic Resources Tania ZittouPart 3: Cultural Experience and Creativity12. Cultural Experience and Creativity: An Introduction Patricia Townsend13. Cultural Experience and the Gallery Film Annette Kuhn14. Making Space Patricia Townsend15. The Little Madnesses of Museums Myna Trustram16. Found Objects and Mirroring Forms Ken WrightContributorsSelect BibliographyIndex

This book offers several delights in its combination of psychoanalytic, cultural and artistic perspectives. (Therapy Today)