Little Madnesses

Zusammenfassung 'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms! investments and attachments in the sphere of culture. In this title! writers! artists! and scholars develop and revitalize cultural theory by exploring the idea of transitional phenomena and its potential to deepen our understanding of cultural experience in mental and social life.

Préface
'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture. In this title, writers, artists, and scholars develop and revitalize cultural theory by exploring the idea of transitional phenomena and its potential to deepen our understanding of cultural experience in mental and social life.

Auteur
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.

Contenu
Foreword by Lesley Caldwell Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Little Madnesses: An Introduction Annette Kuhn Part 1: Spaces and Frames 2. Spaces and Frames: An Introduction Annette Kuhn 3. The Location of Virtual Experience Victor Burgin 4. The Playing Spectator Phyllis Crème 5. Home is Where We Start From Annette Kuhn 6. Soundspace Amal Treacher Kabesh Part 2: Media Users 7. Media Users: An Introduction Matt Hills 8. Pleasure and Adult Development C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby 9. Recoded Transitional Objects & Fan Re-readings of Puzzle Films Matt Hills 10. The Reality of the Experience of Fiction Serge Tisseron 11. On the Use of a Film: Cultural Experiences as Symbolic Resources Tania Zittou Part 3: Cultural Experience and Creativity 12. Cultural Experience and Creativity: An Introduction Patricia Townsend 13. Cultural Experience and the Gallery Film Annette Kuhn 14. Making Space Patricia Townsend 15. The Little Madnesses of Museums Myna Trustram 16. Found Objects and Mirroring Forms Ken Wright Contributors Select Bibliography Index