Dowmunt, Tony; Porter, Andy and Webb Ingall, Ed. 2017. London Community Video Archive. [Digital]

No full text available

Text (London Community Video Archive) items_splash=true - Other Permissions: Administrator Access Only Download (183kB)

Abstract or Description

Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, the London Community Video Archive (LCVA) preserves, archives and shares community videos made in the 1970s/80s in London and the South East. Portable video recording — now a technology routinely embodied in smartphones — became available for the very first time back in the early 1970s, making it possible for individuals and communities to make their own television. The medium was taken up by people ignored or under-represented in the mainstream media – tenants on housing estates, community action groups, women, black and minority ethnic groups, youth, gay and lesbian people, and the disabled. With an overriding commitment to social empowerment and to combating exclusion, 'Community Video' dealt with issues which still have a contemporary resonance — housing, play-space, discrimination, youth arts.

Item Type:	Digital
Keywords:	community video, video recording
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Date:	22 June 2017
Item ID:	28231
Date Deposited:	27 Feb 2020 12:08
Last Modified:	27 Feb 2020 12:09
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/28231

View statistics for this item...

Edit Record (login required)