Introduction
Film and cultural history
Understanding the 1970s
Film and government
Funding innovation
Movers and shakers
Institutions and organisations
The films
Sunday bloody Sunday: authorship, collaboration and improvisation
The go-between: the past, the present and the 1970s
Confessions of a window cleaner: sex, class and popular taste
Stardust: stardom, performance and masculinity
Scum: institutional control and patriarchy
The tempest: a brave new world of creative endeavor?
Conclusion.