Sian Barber

Sian Barber is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. She has expertise in British Film history, particularly in censorship, controversy and cinema and publications include, Censoring the 1970s: The BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot, (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011), Capital, Culture and Creativity: The British Film Industry in the 1970s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)  and Using Film as a Source (Manchester University Press, 2015). She is currently working on her fourth monograph which will be published with Manchester University Press and will explore local and regional film censorship across the UK. She has also published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Media History, Historical Research and the Journal of British Cinema and Television.  She is a member of the EUscreen Foundation, a European consortium of archives, academics and technical partners which explores aspects of digital heritage, access and preservation, and a member of the Northern Ireland Moving Image Heritage & Archive working group. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of British Cinema and Television, and VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture.