The British Film Institute, the government and film culture, 1933-2000 / edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Christophe Dupin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey.

Dupin, Christophe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British Film Institute.

Motion pictures--Great Britain.

Motion pictures.

Film criticism.

Great Britain.

Film criticism--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

The British Film Institute (BFI) is one of the UK's oldest and most important government-supported cultural institutions. From a modest start in the 1930s it grew rapidly after the war to encompass every kind of film-related activity from production to archiving to exhibition to education. At the beginning of the twenty-first century its turnover was approaching £30m and it had become a central point of reference for anyone whose interest in film stretched beyond what's on at the local multiplex. There was nothing straightforward about this rise to prominence. It was achieved in the face of government indifference, active obstruction from the film trade, internecine warfare within the organisation and fierce contestation on the part of the BFI's own core public. Based on intensive original research in the BFI's own voluminous archives and elsewhere, this book examines the interplay of external and internal forces that led to the BFI's unique development as a multi-faceted public body.

Contents:

Foreword / Sir Denis Forman

Introduction / Christophe Dupin and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Foundation and early years / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Post-war renaissance / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

'Je t'aime ... moi non plus': Ernest Lindgren and Henri Langlois / Christophe Dupin

The BFI and film exhibition, 1933-1970 / Christophe Dupin

The vanguard of film appreciation: the film society movement and film culture, 1945-1965 / Richard MacDonald

From the 1964 Labour government to the 1970 BFI crisis / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

The view from outside London / Melanie Selfe

Paddy Whannel and BFI Education / Terry Bolas

The 1970s / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

The Smith years / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

The BFI and film production: half a century of innovative independent film-making / Christophe Dupin

The BFI and television / Richard Paterson

The Sight and sound story, 1932-1992 / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

A public showcase for the BFI: the Museum of the Moving Image / Lorraine Blakemore

Towards the millennium / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Epilogue / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [310]-318) and index.

ISBN:

9780719079085

071907908X

OCLC:

779881498