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Dr Sian Barber

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Dr Sian Barber

Dr Sian Barber

School of Arts, English and Languages

Dr Barber’s research focuses on British film censorship, British cinema, and broadcast archives. She has published on British cinema and cinema-going and the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC. She is the author of Censoring the 1970s: The BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot (2011), The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity (2013) and Using Film as a Source (2015). As well as ongoing work on local film censorship, she is working with RTE Archives to explore film debates on television.

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  • s.barber@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 1142

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of 

  • British film history
  • Film censorship
  • Film controversy
  • Audiences

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • EUscreen: http://blog.euscreen.eu/
  • http://blog.euscreen.eu/2011/12/the-key-to-more-access-uk-launch-report/
  • Being Human 2017: Lost and Found ‘Find your voice!
    Exploring teen girl issues on the screen
  • https://twitter.com/zmcbreartyQUB/status/933371290790047744
  • IHR pedagogical research guide with MUP published as Using Film as a Source (2015)
  • Steering group member Women’s Film and Television Network NI
  • Editorial Board: Journal of British Cinema and Television

Research students

PhD title Digital Authorship and George Lucas 
Country United Kingdom 
   
PhD title The Horror Film and the Family: Evolving Dangers in post-war Britain 1950-1979 
Country United Kingdom 

 


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