Table of Contents

Introduction
PART ONE: CONTEXTS
1: The British Cinema and Thatcherism
2: Film Policy and Industrial Change
3: Film and Television: A New Relationship
PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST
4: The Heritage Film: Issues and Debates
5: Films and Empire
6: Remembering the 1950s: Dance With a Stranger
PART THREE: CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONS
7: The `State of the Nation' Film
8: Class, Gender, and Working-Class Realism
9: Class Politics and Gender: High Hopes and Riff-Raff
10: `Race' and Cultural Hybridity
11: `Race' and the Politics of Form
Conclusion: A National Cinema?
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

John Hill is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Media and Performance Studies at the University of Ulster at Coleraine, is a Governor of the British Film Institute, and is co-editor of The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (OUP, 1998)

Reviews

'John Hill's authoritative study is ... extremely welcome, and certain to establish itself rapidly as the standard version of British filmmaking in this decade. ... (It is distinguished by) a generally lucide prose style, informed by theory but not jargon-ridden; firm principles of organisation; the judicious weighing of evidence and competing views; and the ability to combine close analysis of selected films while relating them to broader patterns of
political, social and cultural life.' Journal of Popular British Cinema
`An excellent and penetrating analysis of an emergent decade.'
Adam Jones, University College Warrington.