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Reading List
This reading list contains suggestions of texts. Summer school participants might find it useful to read some of these before coming to London, but this is not obligatory.
Proust, planes and telephones'
Readings suggested by Dr Akane Kawakami
Danius, Sara. The Senses of Modernism : Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002)
- see specifically the chapters on Proust
Film and Colonial Memories
readings suggested by Robert Lumley
Benjamin, Walter. ‘Theses on History’ in Illuminations (London, 1969)
Foster, Hal. ‘The Artist as Ethnographer’, in The Return of the Real (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1996) pp.171-203
Mulvey, Laura. Death 24X a Second. Stillness and the Moving Image (London, Reaktion Books, 2006)
Rees, A.L. A History of Experimental Film and Video (London, BFI, 1999)
Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others (London, Penguin 2003)
Tobing Rony, Fatimah. The Third Eye. Race, Cinema and Ethnographic Spectacle (Durham and London, Duke UP, 1996)
Virilio, Paul. War and Cinema. The Logistics of Perception (London, Verso, 1989)
The View from the Train
reading suggested by Patrick Keiller
Benjamin, Walter. 'Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia’ (1929) in One-Way Street and Other Writings, tr. Edmund Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter (London: New Left Books, 1979), pp.225-239.
Keiller, Patrick. 'Phantom Rides: The Railway and Early Film' in The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble,eds. Matthew Beaumont and Michael Freeman. (Peter Lang, 2007), pp.69-84.
Keiller, Patrick. 'Imaging' in Restless Cities, eds. Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart (Verso: 2010), pp.139-154.
The Warburg Library
readings suggested by Francois Quiviger
Diers, Michael, Thomas Girst, Dorothea von Moltke. ‘Warburg and the Warburgian Tradition of Cultural History’ in New German Critique, No. 65, Cultural History/Cultural Studies. (Spring - Summer, 1995) pp. 59-73
Rampley, Matthew. ‘From Symbol to Allegory: Aby Warburg's Theory of Art’ in The Art Bulletin, Vol. 79, No. 1. (Mar., 1997) pp. 41-55.
The Stanley Kubrick Archives
readings suggested by Richard Daniels
Brunsdon, Charlotte. London in Cinema: the Cinematic City since 1945. (London: BFI, 2007).
Ciment, Michel. Kubrick: The Definitive Edition. Trans. By Gilbert Adair and Robert Bononno. (New York, London: Faber and Faber, 2003).
LoBrutto, Vincent. Stanley Kubrick:A Biography. (New York, London: Faber and Faber, 1998).
Naremore, James. On Kubrick. (London: BFI, 2007).
Architectural Tour on Routemaster Bus
readings suggested by Joe Kerr
Sinclair, Iain. 'Millfields' in Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2009) pp.243-252.
Archway Polytechnic
For suggested reading for this session please visit the Archway Polytechnic document website and scroll down to 'Visting Professors Reading List'
Guns and the memory of WWI: the case of the ImMperial War Museum
readings suggested by Gabriel Koureas
Kavanagh Gaynor, Museums and the First World War. A Social History, Leicester University Press, 1994
Malvern Sue, ‘War, Memory and Museums: Art and Artefact in the Imperial War Museum’, History Workshop Journal, Issue 49, 2000, p.177-203
Koureas Gabriel, ‘Unconquerable Manhood’: Memory, Masculinity and the Commemoration of the First World War in British Visual Culture, 1914 to 1930, Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of London, 2003, Ch.4
Analogue Memories: Shellac and Vinyl Records
readings suggested by
Richard Osborne
Cox, Christopher and Daniel Warner, eds., Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (New York and London: Continuum, 2004)
Kittler, Friedrich A. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986)
The British Empire on Film
reading suggested by
Richard Osborne
Louis, Wm. Roger. ‘Introduction’, in The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century, ed. by Judith M. Brown and Wm. Roger Louis (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 1-46
Digital Memories
readings suggested by Eleanor Chiari
Aleida Assman, ‘The Printing Press and the Internet: From a Culture of Memory to a Culture of Attention’ in Natascha Gentz, Stefan Kramer, Globalization, cultural identities, and media representations, New York, State University of New York Press, 2006, 11-24.
Huyssen, Andreas, ‘Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia’ in Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics or Memory, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003.
Jones, Steve, Doing Internet research: critical issues and methods for examining the Net, Thousand Oaks, Sage, 1999.
Landsberg, Alison, Prosthetic memory: The transformation of American remembrance in the age of mass culture, New York, Columbia University Press, 2004
Two particular case studies (not necessarily those we will discuss but could be a good place to go for some ideas):
Colwell-Chanthaphonh , Chip, ‘Dismembering/disremembering the Buddhas: Renderings on the Internet during the Afghan purge of the past’ Journal of Social Archaeology, Vol. 3, No. 1, 75-98 (2003)
Orgad, Shani, ‘The cultural dimensions of online communication: a study of breast cancer patients’ internet spaces’ in New Media & Society, Vol. 8, No. 6, 877-899, 2006.
Walking Tour: London, the River, Technology and Memory
readings suggested by Derek Keene
Ellmers C. and A. Werner. London's lost riverscape : a photographic panorama (London, 1988)
Keene, Derek. ‘Issues of water in medieval London, to c.1300’, Urban History 28.2 (2001), pp. 161-81
[a cultural approach to the city, the river and other waters, drinking, bathing and drowning]
Porter, Stephen, ed. Poplar, Blackwall and the Isle of Dogs, (Survey of London, vols 43-4, 1994).
[Well-illustrated volumes containing a mass of information on buildings, port installations and industrial establishments. Browsing them is one of the best introductions to the relationship between London, the river and its cluster of industries between the 17th and the late 20th century, to a lost riverside landscape and to what was succeeding it]
South Metropolitan Gas Company, A Century of Gas in South London. (London, 1924) [invoking the Pyramids and the Albert Hall].
Wright, Laura. Sources of London English: medieval Thames Vocabulary (Oxford, 1996)
[an original, insightful and quirky contribution to understanding London and its river]
Some novels on the river, technology and memory:
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
[the brooding first chapter dramatically links London, the river, memory and 'over there']
Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend
[the early chapters contain much drama on the river, drowning and watermen]
Sinclair, Iain. Downriver
[quirky psychic resonances, if not necessarily insightful]
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