Research On The Support System Of Contemporary British Film Industry

Since the late 1920 s,the American film industry is being built the domestic film market actively,at the same time,began to seek overseas market.The theaters have become a special show of American movies in the British and other European countries.Especially after sound film arose,similar cultural roots and lose of the language barrier compared to other European countries in terms of impact of American films is more serious,the local film production quantity,distribution sector is also at risk.The British government decided to save the nation by state intervention means film industry were not completely engulfed,promote economic and cultural principle of film guarantee and support system,such as more than half a century of quotas protection measures,and through set up Eady Levy,to set up the national film support measures such as the National Film Finance Corporation.As the film industry was brought to market during the Thatcher period,the national film industry was once again in danger of becoming trapped inside and outside.In the 1990 s,the government decided to introduce the National Lottery to support the film industry.In addition to,cultural means are mainly dominated by the British film society,which selectively supports the independent production of domestic films and films with unique national characteristics.The goal of British film guarantee and support system is to help the British film industry inheriting traditional culture,develop imaginative and dynamic creative culture,efforts to improve the comprehensive competitiveness of the movie industry.The relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States in the film industry is intricate and complex.It seeks development in confrontation and cooperation.The British film policy is different from the United States' free competition model represented by Hollywood,and it is also distinguished from the European Union's intervention model represented by France.Between the two,the moderate attitude makes it easier to take advantage of the mature and mature distribution network in the United States to expand domestic film exports,and attract film talent from all over the world,mainly Hollywood,to bring advanced film technology and production experience to the UK.However,the negative consequence of hesitation is that it is more difficult to get out of the shadow of darkness created by the American movie Light.The dissertation tries to sort out and clarify the history of the development of British film industry support system,respectively,from the two dimensions of direct support and indirect support to present the specific policies of the contemporary British film industry support system.Direct support system mainly around the direct allocation of national lottery funds of three film affairs management franchise institutions,analysis of its operation and characteristics;Indirect support system is mainly based on the government's preferential tax policy for the film industry and funding of television industry,to explore the achievements and limitations of the implementation of the policy.