Sian Barber is Reader in Film in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast

Shortlisted for the 2026 BAFTSS Award for best monograph

• Introduction: local censorship reconsidered1. A new form of leisure: 1908–192. New regions and new anxieties: 1920–293. Councils, committees and the perils of cinema: 1930–394. Wartime concerns and local anxieties: 1940–505. The changing landscape of the post-war world: 1950–596. Local alliances in a permissive decade: 1960–707. New categories, new permissions: 1970–768. New boundaries and new regions: 1977–85ConclusionsIndex

Sian Barber is Reader in Film in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast

Shortlisted for the 2026 BAFTSS Award for best monograph

• Introduction: local censorship reconsidered1. A new form of leisure: 1908–192. New regions and new anxieties: 1920–293. Councils, committees and the perils of cinema: 1930–394. Wartime concerns and local anxieties: 1940–505. The changing landscape of the post-war world: 1950–596. Local alliances in a permissive decade: 1960–707. New categories, new permissions: 1970–768. New boundaries and new regions: 1977–85ConclusionsIndex

Sian Barber is Reader in Film in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast

Shortlisted for the 2026 BAFTSS Award for best monograph

• Introduction: local censorship reconsidered1. A new form of leisure: 1908–192. New regions and new anxieties: 1920–293. Councils, committees and the perils of cinema: 1930–394. Wartime concerns and local anxieties: 1940–505. The changing landscape of the post-war world: 1950–596. Local alliances in a permissive decade: 1960–707. New categories, new permissions: 1970–768. New boundaries and new regions: 1977–85ConclusionsIndex