Editorial.(Editorial)

ISSUE 37 OF SCREEN EDUCATION continues our series on National Cinemas with Brian McFarlane's authoritative discussion of the high and low points of British cinema. As with Australian film, British cinema is difficult to pigeonhole, although there have been genres that have dominated at certain times that have constructed a version of British national identity to the world. Brian discusses these genres in detail, foregrounding the fact that when the going was good it was very, very good, but when British film was bad it was horrid. There is much here to contrast to the Australian industry, and certainly the contemporary reliance on international stars and co-productions for the survival of a national film industry is something …