Over 39 chapters The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as, on the one hand, a commercial entertainment industry and, on the other, a series of institutions centred on economics, funding and relations to government, such as the British Board of Film Classification, the National Film Finance Corporation, the British Film Institute, and the UK Film Council. Whereas most histories of British cinema focus on directors, stars, genres and themes, The Routledge Companion explores the forces enabling and...