ABSTRACT
The last chapter examined the links between modernism and British cinema until 1970. Since then there have been considerable developments in avant-garde, experimental mainstream and art cinema, encouraged by new structures of funding and distribution and by the convergence of film practice and theoretical concepts including structuralism, feminism and postmodernism. In relation to these developments this chapter will examine the final phases of experimental activity briefly outlined in the previous chapter, beginning with oppositional ‘counter-cinema’ and going on to deal with subsequent independent filmmakers.
