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Research Interests
My research interests cover British cinema, film and history and regulation of the moving image. My work explores the relationship between film, culture and society and the means by which we regulate film and cinema.
I have published on British film and cinema, cinemagoing and audiences, regulation and classification and the work of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). My monographs include Censoring the 1970s: the BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011) and The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
I have recently completed a monograph Using Film as a Source which details how film can be used as a source for different types of research. This work was published in June 2015 by Manchester University Press in conjunction with the Institute of Historical Research. It is the first in a series of pedagogical study guides aimed at undergradte and postgradute students and researchers.
My current research focuses upon local censorship and is drawing on a number of historical case studies to explore the regulation of film within different locations. The first findings of this work are to be published in The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television in 2016.
Since 2010 I have been a member of the EUscreen project, an EU-funded consortium of academics, technology providers and European broadcasters and archives which has created a fully searchable online database of moving image content. The collection currently houses over 40,000 freely available items. www.euscreen.eu.
Teaching
I currently convene and teach the following modules:
- Introduction to Film Studies 1 (FLM1001) level 1
- British Cinema: nation, industry and identity (FLM2026) level 2
- British Cinema: decades and debates (FLM3032) level 3
- Censorship, Regulation and Audiences (MA)
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Projects
- 1 Finished
R6436CRA: EUscreenXL, the pan-European audiovisual aggregator for Europeana
25/02/2014 → 28/02/2016
Project: Research
Research Output
Discovering Film on Irish Television: fragments from the RTÉ Archives 1960-1965
Barber, S., 22 Oct 2018, In : Historical Research. 91, 254, p. 791-809Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Cinema and the Age of Television, 1950-1970
Barber, S., 12 Jan 2017, The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History. Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 220-229 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Exploiting local controversy: regional British censorship of Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Barber, S., 01 Dec 2016, In : Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. p. 587-603 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
2
Citations
(Scopus)
203
Downloads
(Pure)
Power struggles, regulation and responsibility. Reappraising the Video Recordings Act
Barber, S., 09 Sep 2016, In : Media History. p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Using film as a source
Barber, S., 01 Jun 2015, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 174 p. (IHR Research Guides ; vol. 1)Research output: Book/Report › Book
Activities
2 Minute Masterpiece and pitching masterclass with BBC NI and NI Screen
Sian Barber (Host)11 Feb 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
RTS Futures masterclass series
Sian Barber (Session chair)08 Apr 2019 → 11 Apr 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Irish Film Institute series on British Cinema. Screening of 28 Days Later... and discussion of British horror cinema
Sian Barber (Participant)26 Mar 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Exploring Cinema-going Past and Present
Sian Barber (Participant)05 Apr 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Researching Past Cinema Audiences
Sian Barber (Participant)26 Mar 2018 → 28 Mar 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Press / Media
No sex please: how Northern Ireland was united by ‘evil’ films
30/06/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Impact
Being Human - a festival of the humanities (Northern Ireland Hub)
Franziska Schroeder (Participant), David Grant (Participant), Kurt Taroff (Participant), Cahal McLaughlin (Participant), Stefanie Lehner (Participant), Alex Murray (Participant), Sian Barber (Participant), Paul Murphy (Participant)
Impact: Cultural Impact, Societial Impact