Cuts and Categories: 100 years of the BBFC
Wednesday 21 March 2012, from 12.00 to 18.00
De Montfort University, Leicester
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The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester is hosting an afternoon symposium to mark the 100th anniversary of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC):

The speakers are:

• Dr. Sian Barber (Royal Holloway, University of London), author of Censoring the Seventies: The BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot
• Professor Martin Barker (University of Aberystwyth), author of The Video Nasties: Freedom and Censorship in the Media, Ill Effects: The Media/Violence Debate, and The Crash Controversy: Censorship Campaigns and Film Reception
• Professor Steve Chibnall (De Montfort University), author of Quota Quickies and co-author of The British ‘B’ Film
• David Hyman, BBFC Examiner
• Professor Julian Petley (Brunel University), Chair of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and author of Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain and co-auhor of Ill Effects

Most of the speakers are contributors to the forthcoming BBFC centenary book: Inside the BBFC: Film Censorship from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age (BFI/Palgrave, 2012)

There will also be a rare opportunity to see the discussion programme Suitable For Viewing in the Home, on the Video Nasties and the 1985 Video Recordings Act.

Places are limited, but If you would like to attend, please email CATH@dmu.ac.uk

The symposium fee is £15 (waged) or £8 (unwaged) and includes lunch and refreshments.