Money Behind the Screen
A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2022
416 pages
978-1-3995-0078-4 (ISBN)
Description
Provides the first comprehensive history of the politics of film finance in Britain from the end of the Second World War to 1985
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Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: An Industry in Crisis: 1945-1950
- 1 A Short History of the British Film Industry
- 2 Bogart or Bacon
- 3 Capital and Commerce
- 4 Producers and Profits
- 5 The National Film Finance Corporation
- 6 The Eady Levy
- Part II: A Fragile Stability: 1951-1969
- 7 The Road to Recovery
- 8 The British Lion Film Corporation
- 9 Film Finances and the British Film Industry
- 10 Rise of the Runaways
- 11 New Waves, New Crises
- 12 Hollywood, UK
- 13 Backing British
- 14 Decline and Fall
- Part III: Crises and Contraction: 1970-1985
- 15 Restructuring the Film Industry
- 16 The Changing Landscape of Film Finance
- 17 The National Film Finance Consortium
- 18 The Prime Minister's Working Party and its Aftermath
- 19 Revising Eady
- 20 The British Are Coming!
- 21 The Retreat of the State
- Conclusion
- Appendix I: Production Costs and Revenues of Selected Feature Films in the Late 1940s
- Appendix II: National Film Trustee Company: Production Costs and Receipts
- Appendix III: Budgets and Costs of Selected British First Features Guaranteed by Film Finances
- Appendix IV: National Film Finance Corporation: Accounts, 1950-1985
- Appendix V: Feature Films supported by the National Film Finance Corporation, 1949-1985
- Bibliography
- Index
