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In the 1970s and 1980s, British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman (1978), Alien (1979), and Batman (1989). Some of this reputation was founded on the core of talent brought together for the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) who subsequently worked together on series and feature films for ...
1970s. Many see the 1970s as a period of British cinema that is best to be forgotten. With funding problems, falling audiences, the increased competition of small screens– not to mention Thatcher’s budget cuts to state funded cinema– the movies were struggling.
Nov 30, 2011 · This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period. It examines the cross-cultural relationship between British cinema and other media, including popular music and television.
Apr 15, 1999 · This study will consider the function of cinema in British society’s ongoing relationship with the 1980s. Its focus on a key period of recent British film history acknowledges popular culture’s …
Dec 23, 2013 · For historians of film, the 1970s in Britain are a problematic decade. Just as the 1960s’ utopian window of social progress closed in the 1970s, the films produced in the 1970s have typically been ...
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From the 1980s broadcasting policy has played a major role in maintaining an economic and cultural engine for British cinema. Broadcasters – especially Channel 4 – became the film industry’s new domestic partner after theatrical decline had brought traditional film financing into free fall.
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The scope of this book is simultaneously narrow and broad. It aims to draw a map of British film culture in the 1970s. At face value, the title implies one nation, one medium and one decade, but we hope to tease out the complexity of each of these terms.
