Author Archive for: ‘John Finlay Kerr’

‘Rereading’ Be Kind Rewind (USA 2008): How film history can be remapped through the social memories of popular culture

1. Introduction ‘History returns forever – as film,’ voiced Anton Kaes.[1] However, film in turn returns as history. Cinema is a culture we can refer to and use to encode our experiences, to analyse the past with, and to observe as markers of time and of trends. This common relationship with film is revealed in the autobiographies and memoirs shaped …

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