UK film policy, cultural capital and social exclusion

The article will begin with a brief discussion of Bourdieu's writing on film and the ambivalent cultural status occupied by film in his model of cultural hierarchy. This is followed by a brief discussion of the competing strands, industrial, social and cultural, surrounding film policy in the UK. The article then concludes with an overview of the policies of the UK Film Council, focusing in particular on the ways in which these policies have sought to address the issue of social exclusion and how these policies may be seen to relate back to the concept of cultural capital.