Centre for Urban History

James Patterson

Director of the Media Archive for Central England (MACE)

Email: jmp42@le.ac.uk
Room: 202
Building: 1 Salisbury Road

Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 5069
Fax: +44 (0)116 252 5062
Address: Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK

Web: http://www.macearchive.org/

Prior to this post James was Keeper of Documentary Film at the National Film and Television Archive where he started as a film cataloguer in 1979.

Beyond the everyday concerns of maintaining and developing MACE, James is interested in the curation and accessibility of film archive collections, in film archive policy, in the British documentary and in the home movie.

James is currently:

• Deputy Chair, UK Film Archive Forum
• Member, West Midlands Heads of Archive Services panel
• Member, Executive Committee, East Midlands Regional Archive Council
• Member, East Midlands Regional Archive Council
• Member, West Midlands Regional Archive Forum
• Member, Community Archives Development Group
• Chair, working group on Diversity and Audience Development, West Midlands Regional Archive strategy
• Member “Cinemagazines and the Projection of Britain” (AHRC project Steering Group)

He has been:

• Chair, Forum for Medical Film and History 1996-1998
• Board member and Trustee, South West Film and TV Archive1994-1999
• Board member and Trustee, Media Archive for Central England 1995-1999
• Member, Steering Group, Hidden Treasures National Conference on audiovisual archives 2001-02
• Programme advisor (Documentary Film), National Film Theatre, 1991-2000
• Programme advisor (Archive), Sheffield International Documentary Festival 1996-1999
• Film Advisor, East Midlands Arts Board 2000-2002
• Board member and Trustee, Birmingham Film and TV Festival, 2000-2003
• Member, Archive Advisory Panel, AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies 2001-2003
• South West Regional Audiovisual Archive Strategy (Steering Group) 2003-2005
• Midlands regional audiovisual archive strategy (Steering Group) 2004-2005
• National Audiovisual Archive Strategy (Steering group) 2002-2004

Publications:

Has published articles on various matters relating to aspects of film history and archiving in a wide range of journals including:

• The British Universities Film and Video Council Handbook, The Researchers Guide to British Film and Television Collections, Multimedia Information and Technology, African Research and Documentation, Your Family Tree and in the proceedings of various conferences.
• Co-author of Moving History – Towards a policy for Moving Image Archives 2000
• Co-author of Hidden Treasures – A National Audiovisual Archive Strategy Framework 2003/04