Dr Emma Sandon
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Early British film and television history
- Documentary and ethnographic film
- British colonial film; cinema in Africa
- Law and visual culture
- Human rights film and video
Research overview
My interests intersect in the politics and processes of writing histories and the use of archive, as well as methodological issues in film and television studies.
I am currently developing a book entitled Television Entertainment: The Early History of BBC Television at Alexandra Palace 1936-1952. I am also engaged in research on colonial film in Africa and early documentary in South Africa. I am currently co-organising, with colleagues in the School of Law, a Human Rights and Visual Culture Workshop at Birkbeck in June 2010.
I am a Research Associate at the University of Cape Town, in Archive and Public Culture. I am on the core Management Team and Advisory Board of the AHRC-funded project, Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire, Colonial Film Conference. I am on the steering group of the AHRCWomen’s Film History Network.
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Current doctoral researchers
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DALE CROSBY
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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CAROLINE MOLLOY
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SARAH DURCAN
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Screen Media: History, Technology and Culture (AHVM031S7)
- Connecting the Arts (AREN126S5)
- History and Theory of Screenwriting (ARMC044H7)
- Working with the Film Camera (ARMC240S4)
- Working with Film Sound (ARMC254S5)
- Documentary: Filmmaking Histories and Digital Practices (ARMC259S7)
- Approaches to Cinema History (FFME020S5)
- Documentary (FFME063S5)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Sandon, Emma (2013) Cinema and highlife in the Gold Coast: The Boy Kumasenu (1952). Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies 39 (3), pp. 496-519. ISSN 0253-3952.
- Sandon, Emma (2013) African mirror: the life and times of the South African newsreel from 1910 to 1948. Journal of Southern African Studies 39 (3), pp. 661-680. ISSN 0305-7070.
- Sandon, Emma (2010) Women, Empire, and British cinema history. Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 51 (2), pp. 324-333. ISSN 0306-7661.
- Sandon, Emma (2007) Preserving a heritage? South African archive documentary: 1910-1940. Canadian Journal of Film Studies 16 (1), pp. 51-62. ISSN 0847-5911.
Book
- Moran, Leslie J. and Loizidou, Elena and Christie, Ian and Sandon, Emma, eds. (2004) Law's moving image. London, UK: Cavendish. ISBN 9781904385011.
Book Section
- Sandon, Emma (2018) Law and film: curating rights cinema. In: deGuzman, M.M. and Amann, D.M. (eds.) Arcs of Global Justice: Essays in Honour of William. A. Schabas. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 501-520. ISBN 9780190272654.
- Sandon, Emma and Givanni, J. (2017) Connections - movements - treasures: unlocking the potential of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive. In: Shiach, M. and Virani, T. (eds.) Cultural Policy Innovation and the Creative Economy: Creative Collaborations in Arts and Humanities Research. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 163-178. ISBN 9781349951116.
- Sandon, Emma (2016) Conversion, salvation and the 'Civilising Mission': Christian Missions and documentary film in India (1900-1960). In: Aitken, I. and Deprez, C. (eds.) The Colonial Film in South and South East Asia. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 148-167. ISBN 9781474407205.
- Sandon, Emma (2011) La télévision expérimentale à l'Alexandra Palace: la BBC et sa programmation de variétés. In: Delavaud, G. and Marechal, D. (eds.) Télévision, le Moment Expérimental: De l’Invention à l’Institution (1935-1955). Rennes, France: Éditions Apogée. ISBN 9782843983771.
- Sandon, Emma (2007) Nostalgia as resistance: the case of the Alexandra Palace Television Society and the BBC. In: Wheatley, H. (ed.) Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography. London, UK: I.B.Tauris. pp. 99-112. ISBN 9781845111885.
- Sandon, Emma and Holland, P. (2006) Can whiskey come too? reflections on viewing domestic colonial photographic collections. In: Faulkner, S. and Ramamurthy, A. (eds.) Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain. London, UK: Ashgate. pp. 153-188. ISBN 9780754640028.
- Loizidou, Elena (2004) Rebel without a cause?. In: Moran, Leslie J. and Sandon, Emma and Loizidou, Elena and Christie, Ian (eds.) Law's Moving Image. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781904385011.
- Macmillan, Fiona (2004) How the movie moguls learned to stop worrying and love the new technology. In: Moran, Leslie J. and Loizidou, Elena and Christie, Ian and Sandon, Emma (eds.) Law's Moving Image: Law and Film. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781904385011.
- Moran, Leslie (2004) On realism and the law film: the case of Oscar Wilde. In: Moran, Leslie and Sandon, Emma and Loizidou, Elena and Christie, Ian (eds.) Law’s Moving Image. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781904385011.
- Sandon, Emma (2002) Representing 'African life': from the ethnographic exhibitions to 'Nionga' and 'Stampede'. In: Higson, A. (ed.) Young and Innocent? The Cinema in Britain, 1896-1930. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press. pp. 191-207. ISBN 9780859896597.
- Sandon, Emma (2000) Projecting Africa: two British travel films of the 1920s. In: Hallam, E. and Street, B. (eds.) Cultural encounters, representing 'otherness'. Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 108-148. ISBN 9780415202800.
Conference Item
- Sandon, Emma (2009) The eyewitness in human rights film practices. Eyewitness, The Documentary Turn in Legal and Visual Cultures, 2009, London, UK