Ian Barber
Biographic Data
| ID | 88392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Barber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Barber |
| SIGNATURE | BARBER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3918-4145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Permission to Screen? American Sexual Hygiene Pictures, British Censorship and Local Film Culture, 1919–1950
‘Lewd, pornographic filth’: Managing Culture through Local Film Censorship in Britain, 1948–1968
Film censorship in the UK is predicated on a two-tier system whereby the British Board of Film Classification (formerly British Board of Film Censorship Censorship) (BBFC) recommends a classification for a film and this classification is then implemented by local authorities. In cases where local authorities disagree with a BBFC decision they can change the classification or ban the film entirely. Conversely, they can also screen a film which has…
Ballymena, Bangor and Belfast: Hyper-Localism, Regional Decision-Making and Local Film Censorship in Northern Ireland
This article explores local film censorship in Northern Ireland, examining the ways in which individual local authorities and committees imposed their own conceptions of what was acceptable for the cinema-going public. Drawing on material from the Public Records Office Northern Ireland (PRONI) this work begins with the setting up of local censorship systems in the newly created Northern Irish state in the 1920s, and maps the interventions by a ra…
Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema
One of the key outputs of the AHRC-funded project on 1960s British cinema, this work is less a reappraisal and more about digging deeper and offering new insights into this swinging decade. Its ope
Discovering film on Irish television: Fragments from RTÉ archives 1960–5
This work explores film and television in Ireland in the early nineteen-sixties. Focusing on national broadcaster Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), it uses archival programme footage and broadcast listings to examine television's relationship with film and cinema. This material, which includes excerpts from arts and culture programmes and interviews with actors, suggests an intersection between film, cinema and television in nineteen-sixties Ireland
Power Struggles, Regulation and Responsibility: Reappraising the Video Recordings Act
This article explores the relationship between the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and government during the implementation of the Video Recordings Act (VRA). It considers the public Parliamentary debates about the VRA, and places them alongside private correspondence between the Home Office and the BBFC, and internal BBFC material from the recently catalogued James Ferman papers held at the BFI. As well as exploring the introduction …
Exploiting local controversy: Regional British censorship of Last Tango in Paris (1972)
This article explores local authority responses to the cinematic release of Last Tango in Paris in Britain. Using a range of archival material from the BBFC, the National Archives and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, it offers a detailed, comparative case study of three different locations; Belfast, Newport and Oxford. It argues that comparing local censorship decisions with the national decisions of the BBFC offer little in the way…
Geochemical sourcing of obsidians from thePūrākaunuisite,SouthIsland,NewZealand
We report the first well‐documented case of aSouthIsland site whereMayorIsland obsidian is not the dominant source represented. At thePūrākaunui site (I44/21), located in coastalOtago, we find that most obsidians come from theTaupoVolcanicZone, including sources nearLakeTaupo (52%) andRotorua (27.7 %). A small proportion of the collection comes fromMayorIsland (10.8%) and theCoromandelPeninsula (9.5%) obsidian. The results point to early effects …
Molluscan mulching at the margins: Investigating the development of a S outh I sland M āori variation on P olynesian hard mulch agronomy
Hard mineral clast sediments applied to dry archaeological fields in the distant apical islands of the P olynesian triangle are frequently associated with sweet potato / kūmara ( I pomoea batatas ( L ) L am.) cultivation. In a novel variation on this practice, north‐western S outh I sland M āori deposited tuangi ( A ustrovenus stutchburyi ( W ood, 1828)) mollusc beach valves to cap 10–20 cm deep planting holes or pits by or around the sixteenth c…
Evaluating new radiocarbon dates from midden deposits near Moriori tree carvings, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)
Images indented into living kōpī (Corynocarpus laevigatus) trees by Polynesian Moriori of the Chatham Islands are a novel, indigenous Oceanic carving expression. Currently the absolute chronology of the kōpī tree carving (rākau momori) tradition is poorly resolved. In a recent Rēkohu (Chatham Island) investigation, two isolated shell midden sites were recorded and excavated in the vicinity of rākau momori clusters. A cultural landscape assessment…
Gardens of Rongo: Applying Cross-Field Anthropology to Explain Contact Violence in New Zealand
The scholarship of early-contact violence involving European voyagers and the first peoples of the Americas and Oceania is notable for divergent interpretations and debates around the methods and ethics of historical ethnography, as in the celebrated controversy over Captain James Cook's 1779 Hawaiian death. Scholars agree that this divergence is exacerbated by reliance on fragmentary or tendentious documentary sources. New research on the "first…
Bridging the Divide: Indigenous Communities and Archaeology into the 21st Century - Phillips, C. & Allen, H. (eds.)
Diffusion or innovation? Explaining lithic agronomy on the southern Polynesian margins
Distant but cognate, pre-contact southern Polynesians created extensive rocky cultivation sediments and soils. This early agronomy is evaluated as evidence of innovation or diffusion associated with South American sweet potato (kumara) introductions. For South Island Maori, soil temperatures and drainage were improved in kumara cultivation under and within transported gravel and sand deposits. On Rapa Nui/Easter Island, rocky sediment was spread …
The Archaeology of Pouerua (review)
Is the Truth Down There: Cultural Heritage Conflict and the Politics of Archaeological Authority
The selective pressures and processes of cultural heritage management effectively disinherit some interest groups. Where this occurs in the context of postcolonial or nationalist conflict, the material archaeological record may be referenced to support or reject particular views. The disciplinary assumptions behind the archaeological evidence so produced are not usually contested in judicial contexts. A review of archaeology's theoretical foundat…
Microfossils of introduced starch cultigens from an early wetland ditch in New Zealand
Pollen, phytolith and starch residue analyses of a wetland ditch at Motutangi, far northern New Zealand reveals evidence of early environment and introduced cultigens. During the period of use or infilling, local vegetation largely comprised Gleichenia-Restionaceae swamp and disturbed forest. Starch residues of Colocasia esculenta (taro), Dioscorea sp. (yam) and Ipomoea sp. (possibly I. batatas, sweet potato) are identified, here, and suggest tha…
Sea, land and fish: Spatial relationships and the archaeology of South Island Maori fishing
Customary Maori uses of the sea recognized ritual restrictions enforced by supernatural penalties and jurisdictions. In contrast, archaeological interpretations of Maori fishing behaviour emphasize extractive opportunism and, more recently, foraging theory. Archaeological fish catch data are considered from early and later period middens of Te Tau Ihu (northern South Island) to evaluate these seemingly contrastive views. The archaeological sequen…
Geochemical sourcing of obsidians from thePūrākaunuisite,SouthIsland,NewZealand
We report the first well‐documented case of aSouthIsland site whereMayorIsland obsidian is not the dominant source represented. At thePūrākaunui site (I44/21), located in coastalOtago, we find that most obsidians come from theTaupoVolcanicZone, including sources nearLakeTaupo (52%) andRotorua (27.7 %). A small proportion of the collection comes fromMayorIsland (10.8%) and theCoromandelPeninsula (9.5%) obsidian. The results point to early effects …
Microfossils of introduced starch cultigens from an early wetland ditch in New Zealand
Pollen, phytolith and starch residue analyses of a wetland ditch at Motutangi, far northern New Zealand reveals evidence of early environment and introduced cultigens. During the period of use or infilling, local vegetation largely comprised Gleichenia-Restionaceae swamp and disturbed forest. Starch residues of Colocasia esculenta (taro), Dioscorea sp. (yam) and Ipomoea sp. (possibly I. batatas, sweet potato) are identified, here, and suggest tha…
Sea, land and fish: Spatial relationships and the archaeology of South Island Maori fishing
Customary Maori uses of the sea recognized ritual restrictions enforced by supernatural penalties and jurisdictions. In contrast, archaeological interpretations of Maori fishing behaviour emphasize extractive opportunism and, more recently, foraging theory. Archaeological fish catch data are considered from early and later period middens of Te Tau Ihu (northern South Island) to evaluate these seemingly contrastive views. The archaeological sequen…
Molluscan mulching at the margins: Investigating the development of a S outh I sland M āori variation on P olynesian hard mulch agronomy
Hard mineral clast sediments applied to dry archaeological fields in the distant apical islands of the P olynesian triangle are frequently associated with sweet potato / kūmara ( I pomoea batatas ( L ) L am.) cultivation. In a novel variation on this practice, north‐western S outh I sland M āori deposited tuangi ( A ustrovenus stutchburyi ( W ood, 1828)) mollusc beach valves to cap 10–20 cm deep planting holes or pits by or around the sixteenth c…
Evaluating new radiocarbon dates from midden deposits near Moriori tree carvings, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)
Images indented into living kōpī (Corynocarpus laevigatus) trees by Polynesian Moriori of the Chatham Islands are a novel, indigenous Oceanic carving expression. Currently the absolute chronology of the kōpī tree carving (rākau momori) tradition is poorly resolved. In a recent Rēkohu (Chatham Island) investigation, two isolated shell midden sites were recorded and excavated in the vicinity of rākau momori clusters. A cultural landscape assessment…
Gardens of Rongo: Applying Cross-Field Anthropology to Explain Contact Violence in New Zealand
The scholarship of early-contact violence involving European voyagers and the first peoples of the Americas and Oceania is notable for divergent interpretations and debates around the methods and ethics of historical ethnography, as in the celebrated controversy over Captain James Cook's 1779 Hawaiian death. Scholars agree that this divergence is exacerbated by reliance on fragmentary or tendentious documentary sources. New research on the "first…
Is the Truth Down There: Cultural Heritage Conflict and the Politics of Archaeological Authority
The selective pressures and processes of cultural heritage management effectively disinherit some interest groups. Where this occurs in the context of postcolonial or nationalist conflict, the material archaeological record may be referenced to support or reject particular views. The disciplinary assumptions behind the archaeological evidence so produced are not usually contested in judicial contexts. A review of archaeology's theoretical foundat…
Exploiting local controversy: Regional British censorship of Last Tango in Paris (1972)
This article explores local authority responses to the cinematic release of Last Tango in Paris in Britain. Using a range of archival material from the BBFC, the National Archives and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, it offers a detailed, comparative case study of three different locations; Belfast, Newport and Oxford. It argues that comparing local censorship decisions with the national decisions of the BBFC offer little in the way…
Sea, land and fish: Spatial relationships and the archaeology of South Island Maori fishing
Customary Maori uses of the sea recognized ritual restrictions enforced by supernatural penalties and jurisdictions. In contrast, archaeological interpretations of Maori fishing behaviour emphasize extractive opportunism and, more recently, foraging theory. Archaeological fish catch data are considered from early and later period middens of Te Tau Ihu (northern South Island) to evaluate these seemingly contrastive views. The archaeological sequen…
Microfossils of introduced starch cultigens from an early wetland ditch in New Zealand
Pollen, phytolith and starch residue analyses of a wetland ditch at Motutangi, far northern New Zealand reveals evidence of early environment and introduced cultigens. During the period of use or infilling, local vegetation largely comprised Gleichenia-Restionaceae swamp and disturbed forest. Starch residues of Colocasia esculenta (taro), Dioscorea sp. (yam) and Ipomoea sp. (possibly I. batatas, sweet potato) are identified, here, and suggest tha…
Is the Truth Down There: Cultural Heritage Conflict and the Politics of Archaeological Authority
The selective pressures and processes of cultural heritage management effectively disinherit some interest groups. Where this occurs in the context of postcolonial or nationalist conflict, the material archaeological record may be referenced to support or reject particular views. The disciplinary assumptions behind the archaeological evidence so produced are not usually contested in judicial contexts. A review of archaeology's theoretical foundat…
The Archaeology of Pouerua (review)
Diffusion or innovation? Explaining lithic agronomy on the southern Polynesian margins
Distant but cognate, pre-contact southern Polynesians created extensive rocky cultivation sediments and soils. This early agronomy is evaluated as evidence of innovation or diffusion associated with South American sweet potato (kumara) introductions. For South Island Maori, soil temperatures and drainage were improved in kumara cultivation under and within transported gravel and sand deposits. On Rapa Nui/Easter Island, rocky sediment was spread …
Bridging the Divide: Indigenous Communities and Archaeology into the 21st Century - Phillips, C. & Allen, H. (eds.)
Evaluating new radiocarbon dates from midden deposits near Moriori tree carvings, Rēkohu (Chatham Island)
Images indented into living kōpī (Corynocarpus laevigatus) trees by Polynesian Moriori of the Chatham Islands are a novel, indigenous Oceanic carving expression. Currently the absolute chronology of the kōpī tree carving (rākau momori) tradition is poorly resolved. In a recent Rēkohu (Chatham Island) investigation, two isolated shell midden sites were recorded and excavated in the vicinity of rākau momori clusters. A cultural landscape assessment…
Gardens of Rongo: Applying Cross-Field Anthropology to Explain Contact Violence in New Zealand
The scholarship of early-contact violence involving European voyagers and the first peoples of the Americas and Oceania is notable for divergent interpretations and debates around the methods and ethics of historical ethnography, as in the celebrated controversy over Captain James Cook's 1779 Hawaiian death. Scholars agree that this divergence is exacerbated by reliance on fragmentary or tendentious documentary sources. New research on the "first…
Molluscan mulching at the margins: Investigating the development of a S outh I sland M āori variation on P olynesian hard mulch agronomy
Hard mineral clast sediments applied to dry archaeological fields in the distant apical islands of the P olynesian triangle are frequently associated with sweet potato / kūmara ( I pomoea batatas ( L ) L am.) cultivation. In a novel variation on this practice, north‐western S outh I sland M āori deposited tuangi ( A ustrovenus stutchburyi ( W ood, 1828)) mollusc beach valves to cap 10–20 cm deep planting holes or pits by or around the sixteenth c…
Geochemical sourcing of obsidians from thePūrākaunuisite,SouthIsland,NewZealand
We report the first well‐documented case of aSouthIsland site whereMayorIsland obsidian is not the dominant source represented. At thePūrākaunui site (I44/21), located in coastalOtago, we find that most obsidians come from theTaupoVolcanicZone, including sources nearLakeTaupo (52%) andRotorua (27.7 %). A small proportion of the collection comes fromMayorIsland (10.8%) and theCoromandelPeninsula (9.5%) obsidian. The results point to early effects …
Power Struggles, Regulation and Responsibility: Reappraising the Video Recordings Act
This article explores the relationship between the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and government during the implementation of the Video Recordings Act (VRA). It considers the public Parliamentary debates about the VRA, and places them alongside private correspondence between the Home Office and the BBFC, and internal BBFC material from the recently catalogued James Ferman papers held at the BFI. As well as exploring the introduction …
Exploiting local controversy: Regional British censorship of Last Tango in Paris (1972)
This article explores local authority responses to the cinematic release of Last Tango in Paris in Britain. Using a range of archival material from the BBFC, the National Archives and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, it offers a detailed, comparative case study of three different locations; Belfast, Newport and Oxford. It argues that comparing local censorship decisions with the national decisions of the BBFC offer little in the way…
Discovering film on Irish television: Fragments from RTÉ archives 1960–5
This work explores film and television in Ireland in the early nineteen-sixties. Focusing on national broadcaster Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), it uses archival programme footage and broadcast listings to examine television's relationship with film and cinema. This material, which includes excerpts from arts and culture programmes and interviews with actors, suggests an intersection between film, cinema and television in nineteen-sixties Ireland
Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema
One of the key outputs of the AHRC-funded project on 1960s British cinema, this work is less a reappraisal and more about digging deeper and offering new insights into this swinging decade. Its ope
Ballymena, Bangor and Belfast: Hyper-Localism, Regional Decision-Making and Local Film Censorship in Northern Ireland
This article explores local film censorship in Northern Ireland, examining the ways in which individual local authorities and committees imposed their own conceptions of what was acceptable for the cinema-going public. Drawing on material from the Public Records Office Northern Ireland (PRONI) this work begins with the setting up of local censorship systems in the newly created Northern Irish state in the 1920s, and maps the interventions by a ra…
‘Lewd, pornographic filth’: Managing Culture through Local Film Censorship in Britain, 1948–1968
Film censorship in the UK is predicated on a two-tier system whereby the British Board of Film Classification (formerly British Board of Film Censorship Censorship) (BBFC) recommends a classification for a film and this classification is then implemented by local authorities. In cases where local authorities disagree with a BBFC decision they can change the classification or ban the film entirely. Conversely, they can also screen a film which has…
Permission to Screen? American Sexual Hygiene Pictures, British Censorship and Local Film Culture, 1919–1950
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