A British-European film rapprochement was once imaginable but never arrived

Evidence

With its strong debt to European art cinema, Radio On projected a rapprochement between British and European film that never happened – a rapprochement anticipated in the 1970s art pop (Kraftwerk, Bowie) used so prominently in that film. Petit imagined a British cinema that, like that music, could assert its Europeanness not by rejecting America, but by confidently absorbing American influences. Yet this future never arrived. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 501

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Popular modernism was eclipsed by heritage kitsch and US corporate culture — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 502; Petit imagined a British cinema that never materialized — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 501