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Project team members contributed to a number of conferences and symposia and were invited to offer research papers at the University of Southampton, Queen’s University Belfast, Birmingham City University and the University of London’s Institute of Historical Research. Portsmouth also played host to the Southern Broadcasting History Group in April 2012. Additionally, the team made panel presentations at the Screen Studies Conference in Glasgow (2011), at MeCCSA in Bournemouth (2014), at NECS in Lisbon (2012) and at SCMS in Seattle (2014).

Building a Television Audience for World Cinema in the (Late) Era of Media Scarcity
SCMS, Seattle
Ieuan Franklin
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We Need To Talk About Subsidy: Television and the UK film industry – a thirty-year relationship.
SCMS, Seattle
Justin Smith
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Born Risky: Channel 4 and the Red Triangle
MeCCSA, Bournemouth
Justin Smith
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Channel 4 and British film culture – a case of (e)merging methodologies in film and television studies?
University of London Institute of Historical Research Film History Seminar
Justin Smith
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A Song for Europe?: British television and European film co-production policy
NECS, Lisbon
Justin Smith
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Channel 4’s Visions: a European style of film programme?
NECS, Lisbon
Rachael Keene
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From Cannes to Berlin: Examining the importance of film festivals in promoting Channel 4 films in Europe.
NECS, Lisbon
Laura Mayne
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No Cannes Do - An analysis of BBC Films’ public PR disaster at the Cannes Film Festival, 1996
NECS, Lisbon
Anne Woods
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Birmingham Film and Video Workshop
Southern Broadcasting History Group, Portsmouth
Ieuan Franklin
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Welcome to the Dark Side of the Screen: Midnight Underground and Channel 4’s funding of experimental film and video in the 1990s
Southern Broadcasting History Group, Portsmouth
Rachael Keene
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Channel 4’s Press Information Packs: Researching the Context
Screen Studies, Glasgow
Rachael Keene
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‘A sense of time and place’: examining the regional aesthetic in the work of Channel 4’s first Commissioning Editor for Fiction, David Rose.
Politics of Television Space, Leicester
Laura Mayne
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Conferences
The Portsmouth-based research project hosted a dedicated conference at BFI Southbank on 1st and 2nd November 2012 to coincide with Channel 4’s 30th anniversary. But members of the project team have also disseminated research findings at a number of other conferences in the UK and internationally.
Conference 2012
Our project conference brought together media historians and key personnel from the film and television industries to review Channel 4′s contribution to British film culture over three decades. Listen to podcasts of the papers and find out more about the event here.