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French connection UK: the Dinard film festival and the politics of culture.
- Source :
- Studies in European Cinema; Nov2022, Vol. 19 Issue 4, p397-411, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This article looks at the thirty-year history of the Dinard Film Festival (until 2018, the Dinard Festival of British Film), with a particular focus on the financial support provided by bodies with industrial and/or cultural remits: specifically, the UK Film Council, the British Council and the British Film Institute. As I discuss, Dinard is a significant case study for understanding the British film-industrial relationship with France, but also for analysing the interrelationship between economic and cultural policy-making in the British film industry. As I also argue, looking at the history of the Dinard festival offers a significant example of the ways such showcases for 'national cinema' are bound up with the shifting contexts of film-industry policymaking. As I conclude, the changing economic fortunes in British film, and the economic contexts informing UK film policy, have not only impacted on Dinard, but also given the festival a renewed outlook – as well as a more political one in the recent contexts of the UK's EU referendum and 'Brexit'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FILM festivals
POLITICS & culture
CULTURAL policy
BREXIT Referendum, 2016
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17411548
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Studies in European Cinema
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160199398
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2021.1886454