scholarly journals Constance DILLEY (2018), Crosscurrents. How Film Policy Developed in Quebec 1960-1983

Communication ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmine Belam
Keyword(s):  
Film Policy

The Inter/Nationalism of French Film Policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Jäckel
Keyword(s):  
French Film ◽  
Film Policy

The Last Days of the UK Film Council

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Civil Servants ◽  
The Political ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Considerable Detail ◽  
Film Policy

Based on key players’ testimony and an extensive documented record, this chapter initially discusses the political background to the fraught merger talks between the BFI and the UKFC in 2009-2010, along with the uncertain role of the DCMS. It then turns to consider the shock decision to close the UKFC taken by Conservative ministers in the DCMS serving in the Coalition government elected in May 2010. Various possible reasons for closure are evaluated in considerable detail and the impact on the UKFC is described. The account analyses each of the steps taken by the DCMS to devise a new landscape of film support post-UKFC, with the BFI assuming many functions after extensive negotiation with ministers and civil servants. Next, the BFI’s new turn in film policy is considered. A range of views on the closure decision, both pro and con, is discussed.

The Creation of the Film Council

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Review Group ◽  
Policy Review ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Film Policy

This chapter first analyses the two decades of policy development and debate that lay behind the creation of the Film Council. It details the rebirth of interest in film policy and consequent key interventions made by successive Conservative governments after 1979. The Conservatives’ deployment of film tax relief along with their use of the National Lottery as a funding body for film production is described. Next, the New Labour government’s invention of the Film Council in 2000 is considered, noting the diverse policy moves behind this and role of the Film Policy Review Group. The major impact of the creation of the Film Council on the veteran British Film Institute’s status and range of activity is made clear. The chapter highlights how New Labour’s deployment of the dual logics of using expertise and seeking rationalisation together changed the face of film support.

‘Images of Diversity’: Film Policy and the State Struggle for the Representation of Difference in French Cinema

Cinéma-monde ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Stewart
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
National Cinema ◽  
French Cinema ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Film Policy

This chapter considers the complexity of encouraging diversity through film policy through close analyses of the best-known films supported by the program, with particular attention to successful films by French Maghrebi and other minority directors. These films will be discussed in the fuller context of their box office success and critical reception, and minority filmmaking more generally. Finally, these films will be analysed within the range of works supported by the Images de la diversité fund to assess the extent to which national agencies can promote diversity through a multicultural politics of representation. In short, this chapter asks whether, in a country known for its national cinema, a carefully constructed film policy can intervene in an ongoing cultural debate about the changing character of the nation. By considering films that incorporate a cross-Mediterranean gaze, the chapter also considers how themes of migration and immigration are treated in France and in the Maghreb.

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