Defining British cinema: transnational and territorial film policy in the United Kingdom

The article explores the relationship between the transnational and the territorial in British film policy since the middle of the 1990s. The author argues that British film policy makers have sought to construct a British national cinema through encouraging productions to come to Great Britain. British policymakers also sought to develop a stable national film industry through a combination of a series of protectionist measures imposed on distributors and exhibitors from 1927 to 1984.