Archer, N (2021) French connection UK: the Dinard film festival and the politics of culture. Studies in European Cinema. 1 - 15. ISSN 1741-1548

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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’.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: The final version of this accepted manuscript and all relevant information related to it can be found online at; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17411548.2021.1886454?src=&journalCode=rseu20
Subjects: N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Humanities
Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 27 Apr 2021 14:47
Last Modified: 18 Aug 2022 01:30
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/9431

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