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Newsinger, Jack (2010) From the grassroots: regional film policy and practice in England. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

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Abstract

This thesis is an analysis of the development of regional film policy and practice in England. From the late 1960s regional film production sectors have gradually emerged from small-scale, under-resourced cottage industries to become significant areas of British film practice. By the mid-2000s the English regions were incorporated into a national film policy strategy based on a network of nine Regional Screen Agencies and centrally coordinated by the UK Film Council. Along with similar developments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, for many commentators the devolution of film production has questioned the traditional way that British cinema can be understood as a national cinema. This thesis aims to understand how regional film production sectors have developed, what filmmaking practices have characterised them and what these mean for British cinema.

It is argued that the development of regional film policy and practice can be understood in terms of two distinct models: the regional workshop model and the regional “creative industries” model. Each was based on different systemic processes and ideological frameworks, and is best represented in institutions. The development of an institutional framework for regional film production is placed within the wider context of the trajectory of public policy in Britain in the post-War period; specifically the shifting boundaries between cultural policy and economic policy. The thesis employs a critical political economy approach to analyse the development of these policy frameworks and the filmmaking practices that have emerged from them, including detailed case studies of regional film practices, specifically regional documentary, regional short film and regionally-produced feature films.

Item Type:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only) (PhD)
Supervisors:	Pearson, R. Grainge, P.
Keywords:	Film policy, English region, Shane Meadows, Amber films, Short film, Regional Screen Agency, Cultural policy
Subjects:	P Language and literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion pictures
Faculties/Schools:	UK Campuses > Faculty of Arts > School of American and Canadian Studies
Item ID:	11175
Depositing User:	EP, Services
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2010 09:23
Last Modified:	14 Oct 2017 20:26
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/11175

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