Cinema and State. The film industry and the British government, 1927-84
Details:
- Author(s) Dickinson, Margaret, & Sarah Street
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1985
- Pages 280pp; illus
- Publisher British Film Institute
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Finance of production & trade
- Name Legislation & regulation exc h&s & competition policy
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account charting the intervention of the government in the film industry from the First World War in terms of the 'economic management and control of the film business' and frequently in the context of the commercial crises it faced. Deals with such issues as protection from US film imports and the finance of film making and the legislation introduced to facilitate these