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- British Film and Hollywood Essay.doc
British Film has been dominated by Hollywood since WW1. Any essay that discusses UK Film has to reference the cultural and ideological dominance of the Hollywood Film Industry to such as point that many cinema goers often will never see a film in any other environment than a multiplex cinema. They may also fail to recognise that many other countries have very successful film industries - this reflects a concept called the Hollywood Hegemony. Many Hollywood films are able to synergise two compatible products e.g. Star Trek / Angels and Demons are both a computer game and a feature film.
British Film can be defined on a number or levels (Culturally and Institutionally) e.g. commercially successful British Films like Slumdog Millionaire are only so because they are distributed by 20th Century Fox. Films like The Boat That Rocked are only commercially successful because they are distributed by Universal Studios. Independent films like Shifty and Looking for Eric can be categorised as British using Institutional and Cultural definitions. The UK Film Council often claim that films like Harry Potter are British and proudly incorporate them into their statistics but the key problem is that these films are distributed by Hollywood Studios like Warners / Parmount / Sony / 20th Century Fox...
