Abstract

At the 2002 BAFTA award ceremony, Alan Parker, who was then chairman of the UK Film Council, made a speech in which he suggested that:

We need to abandon forever the ‘little England’ vision of a UK industry comprised of small British film companies delivering parochial British films […] It’s time for a reality check. That ‘British’ film industry never existed, and in the brutal age of global capitalism, it never will.