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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.

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?

But, economics aside, what of its artistic death?

Didn't post modernism kill it off?