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Justin Smith - Principal Investigator

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FourThoughts

Guests at our Launch Nights shared their FourThoughts on postcards, sharing their favourite moments from Film4 over the past 30 years.

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The Channel 4 Project

In 2007 Channel Four’s twenty-fifth birthday was marked by a number of reappraisals of is broadcasting legacy.

Yet its innovation in film sponsorship and programming scarcely received mention. At a time when Channel Four’s future as a public service broadcaster is again in the media spotlight, this project directs attention specifically to its unique contribution to film culture in Britain. This new research also adopts…

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Channel 4 and British film culture

Your FourThoughts

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The University of Portsmouth's Channel 4 project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and run in partnership with the British Universities Film and Video Council.
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I believe it is the essence of the creative function that at the top the managerial and editorial responsibilities should be combined. It’s a mistake to feel that, when you get to the top, you must leave your creative instincts behind you. — Jeremy Isaacs, “Profile: TV’s Fourth Man”, Laurence Marks, The Observer, 5th October 1980.

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