This work responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s. Providing a historical perspective to the contemporary resurgence of British cinema, this unique anthology brings together leading international scholars to investigate the rich diversity of British film production, from the early sound period of the 1930s to the present.

Justine Ashby is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. Andrew Higson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia.

List of plates and table Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. Re-framing British Cinema Studies 2. The Distribution and Reception of British Films Abroad 3. Cinema, Popular Culture and the Middlebrow 4. Authorship and Agency 5. Genres, Movements and Cycles 6. Contemporary Cinema 1: Britain's Other Communities 7. Contemporary Cinema 2: Whose Heritage?