Where Did British Cinema Go? How a tax system built for Hollywood left domestic filmmakers behind.
Series: A Cinema of Our Own

Where Did British Cinema Go? How a tax system built for Hollywood left domestic filmmakers behind.

The UK's film tax credit has no requirement that a certified 'British' film have anything to do with Britain. Mission: Impossible claimed £137.3 million under it. Domestic British productions — Trainspotting, Billy Elliot, This Is England — now account for 7% of UK film spend. This is how that happened.

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Concepts

There are concepts in film theory that, once you know them, change how you watch. The punctum explains why two people leave the same film having been moved by entirely different moments. Embodied spectatorship explains why your body responds to what is on screen before your mind has caught up. These pages introduce those frameworks clearly, explain where they come from, and show what they look like in practice.