'Film industry in twentieth century Britain. Consumption patterns, government regulation and firm strategy' in R Coopey & P Lyth (eds), Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century
Details:
- Author(s) Miskell, Peter
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2009
- Pages pp306-29
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Trade protection inc non tariff
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Acknowledges the absence of a much needed scholarly business history of the British film industry and seeks to 'sketch out a framework on which such a history might be based'. In particular seeks 'to explain how both the structure of the industry and the strategies pursued by leading firms evolved through the twentieth century, and to offer some explanation as to why the industry developed in the way it did'. In five chronological sections - 1] infancy; 2] c1910-27 and its functioning under free market conditions; 3] 1927-c60 and impact of government intervention and emergence of a protected domestic industry'; 4] decline in audiences in the latter period; 5] period from c1980 and response to revival in film market and removal of protection