Annette Kuhn
British film scholar (1945-)
Annette Frieda Kuhn, FBA is a British author, cultural historian, educator, researcher, editor and feminist. She is known for her work in screen studies, visual culture, film history and cultural memory. She is Emeritus Professor in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
Career
Kuhn earned a bachelor's degree in 1969 and master's degree in 1975 in sociology at the University of Sheffield. While at Sheffield, she served as the Research Officer at the Sheffield Students' Union, during which period she worked on a campaign for a University crèche. Kuhn also co-convened the Sheffield University Women's Studies Group, organising public seminars and film screenings. As a research assistant at Sheffield she co-authored a survey of British university graduates which supported the notion that first children among several have higher educational achievement than their siblings. During the same period, she also co-authored, with Keith Kelsall, "Graduates: The Sociology of the Elite", which looked at women graduates and their careers, or lack thereof.
She co-edited Feminism and Materialism (1978) with AnnMarie Wolpe, was part of the founding editorial collective of Feminist Review (1979- ) and was a member of the women's photography group Second Sight.
In the mid-1970s, Kuhn began writing, teaching and publishing in film studies, often from a feminist standpoint.
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