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Dr Sian Barber

Email:

S.Barber@qub.ac.uk
Tel:      +44 (0) 28 9097 1142
Office:     102 
Address:     10 University Square 

              

 

Key Roles:        Lecturer in Film

 

Achievements and Distinctions: 
BA University of York, MA University of the West of England, PhD University of Portsmouth, Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy

                                               

Research Interests:                  
British Cinema and Cinemagoing, film censorship and media regulation, the British Board of Film Classification, archive research and digital access to moving image 

 

Current Work:                         
I am currently working on a research guide for Manchester University Press provisionally titled Using Film as a Source. This work will explore how moving image material can be used within research and focuses in particular on ways in which film material can be a useful within disciplines such as history, languages and politics. I am also part of the BUFVC Shared Services project heading up a steering group on Audio Visual citation.  For more information see here: http://bufvc.ac.uk/projects-research/sharedservices/avcitation

 

Selected Publications:             

 

Sole authored books

 

The British Film industry in the 1970s: Capital Culture and Creativity, Palgrave Macmillan (2013) 

  

Censoring the 1970s: The BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot, Cambridge Scholars Press ISBN:10 443833495 (2011)

 

Chapters in books

 

‘More than just a ‘nasty’ decade: classifying the popular in the 1980s’ in E Lamberti (ed) Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age, BFI/Palgrave (f2012)

 

‘The Southampton Odeon in the 1970s: the data and the trends’ in S Harper and J Smith (eds) British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure Edinburgh University Press, ISBN -10: 0748640789 (2011)

 

 

Articles

‘Understanding online Audio-Visual content: Media Literacy and the user’ Media Studies Special issue on Critical insights in European media literacy research and policy (forthcoming January 2013)

 ‘Blue is the pervading shade: Re-examining British Film Censorship in the 1970s’ Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume 6:3, 2009, pp. 349-369.