"In Memory, Forgetting and the Moving Image, Caterina Albano achieves a brilliant synthesis of memory theory, from Benjamin and Bergson to Deleuze and Derrida. She breaks new ground in theorizing how the technologies of cinema and sound recording, as well as their combination in installation art, have allowed for innovations-both scientific and aesthetic-in the understanding of memory processes and representations. She argues persuasively for an appreciation of the performative role of memory, and offers original insights into the role of forgetting and traumatic amnesia in the shaping of personal and social identities in the emergent culture(s) of globalization. This is an invaluable contribution to memory studies." (Inez Hedges, Professor of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Northeastern University and author of World Cinema and Cultural Memory)