Lester Friedman's new book will probably remain the definitive statement on the Thatcherite period in film production. Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism includes a number of critical perspectives, and what Friedman documents here is nothing less than the Renaissance of the British film industry during a period of cultural and political repression. Derek Jarman, Sally Potter, Stephen Frears, Terence Davies and other British cingastes of the Eighties managed to survive and even flourish in the face of a political regime that was decidedly unsympathetic to the ...

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