British cinema overlooks ready-made post-Fordist landscapes it could still use

Evidence

Yet Content isn’t just a requiem for the lost possibilities of the last 30 years. In its use of stunning but underused locations – the ready-made post-Fordist science-fiction landscapes of Felixstowe container port, the eerie Cold War terrain of nearby Orford Ness – Content demonstrates not only what British cinema overlooks, but what it could still be. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 503

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle on how a country’s own cinema edits out its most distinctive contemporary landscapes — Britain’s B-movie directorial imagination vs its actual geography.
• XREF: connects to: Popular modernism was eclipsed by heritage kitsch and US corporate culture — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 502; British mainstream cinema retreated from modernity after 1979 — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 502