Did Uncle Sam kill the UK film industry?

[nasty]

It could also be argued that the British Government killed the British film industry with the 1927 Cinematograph film act, which introduced forced quotas on production companies and distributors.

A lot of substandard quota quickies were made to simply satisfy the quota. As a lot of the films were pretty rubbish, no one wanted to watch them and that bad quality stained the reputation of British cinema. Often when they were shown as a double-bill, a Hollywood movie would be shown first and people would leave before the second feature, which was the Brit flick.

[one eyed jack]

America brought commercialism to cinema that the UK could never compete with ridiculously high budget features.

With that the audiences taste became ams=ericanised.

A bit like its porn industry as well.

Look at it this way, the uS has a far higher commercial catchment to make money so it was inevitable this little isalnd of ours (no bigger than Texas) was ever going to become a world leader

Americas commercial influence goes way beyond its movies. its very culture usurped the western world.

McDonalds anyone?

[The Last Word]

But, economics aside, what of its artistic death?

Didn't post modernism kill it off?