"The book is wide ranging in scope, covering not only the BFI, but 75 years of British cultural life, including film societies, the film archive movement and the Museum of the Moving Image."
"This volume will be a treasure trove for anyone interested in film and the workings of cultural institutions, or more generally in 20th century British film history."
"...a lively account...the editors have produced a well-organized overview of the institution, its historical ups and downs, and most intriguingly of all, the shifting power relationships between the BFI and the succession of British goverments that have affected its fortunes for good or ill."
" this book does provide a balanced and incisive insight into the range of its activities, its institutional relationships (both internal and external) and its organizational development."