InView: Moving Images in the Public Sphere

InView is an in-depth resource which shows, through the juxtaposition and contextualisation of a range of materials, how public issues ‘play out’ across the media. A thematic approach illustrates how different producers and distributors of moving image content provide different voices and perspectives within national social, cultural and economic debates.

The main objective of the project has been to provide access to 600 hours of digitised archive video, documents and associated resources for the enhancement of learning, teaching and research within the areas of the arts and humanities. Much of the content selected had never previously been available for general academic use.

The user will be able not only to study each issue in chronological sequence, but also to compare its moving image representation by different participants in every national debate. The unique strength of the resource is that it is sourced from different collections of national importance, each carrying the voice of a different section of the polity, from public record films to Parliamentary coverage, national and regional news and campaigning films.