Icons In The Fire. The Decline And Fall Of Almost Everybody In The British Film Industry 1984-2000

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Orion Books Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 328 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. This Is The Last Part Of A Trilogy About The British Film Industry From 1960 To 2000; But It Can Be Read Satisfyingly As A Separate Account Of A Wholly Unprecedented Couple Of Decades

Publishers Description: Mention the films - FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, NOTTING HILL, THE FULL MONTY, BRIDGET JONES' DIARY - made in Britain, huge successes all, but none financed by British money. Walker's previous volumes, HOLLYWOOD ENGLAND (1974) and NATIONAL HEROES (1985), covered the period until 1984. This final volume tells the inside story right up to date of why a nation that produces actors of the calibre of Kenneth Branagh, Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Robert Carlyle, Kate Winslet and directors such as Anthony Minghella, Sam Mendes, Stephen Daldry, Stephen Frears and Guy Ritchie cannot sustain a native film industry. Walker's revelations on the iniquities of National Lottery funding of movies - over 200m pounds to date and hardly a profitable film among the 30 so far produced - have been headline news. Indeed he can show that one movie, based on a novel by one of Britain's leading novelists, managed to take only 3,200 pounds at the box office.

ISBN: 0752856103