Collectors’ tales: a personal overview of Film Fiction at Bill Douglas Centre

This article offers a personal view of the film fiction (fiction about cinema) collected by Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell and now at the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, University of Exeter. It also offers some anecdotes about how some items in the collection were acquired during a lifetime of collecting, and briefly deals with books-of-the-film and fiction by film personalities in the Collection.