Cinema, culture, Scotland : selected essays / Colin McArthur and [edited by] Jonathan Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McArthur, Colin, author.

Contributor:

Murray, Jonathan, 1973- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Scotland--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Scotland--In motion pictures.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 540 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This book anthologises selected key works from the oeuvre of Colin McArthur, a pioneering figure within Anglophone Film and Scottish cultural studies since the 1960s.<br><br>Collecting together thirty-seven essays written between 1966 and 2022, twenty-one of which were hitherto out-of-print, the book identifies and illustrates the central strands of scholarly interest that have defined one of British Film Studies and Scottish Cultural Studies' most influential careers: critical investigation and legitimisation of mid-twentieth-century Hollywood cinema and popular American film genres; the cinematic representation of Scotland and the gradual development of a Scottish film production sector; and Scotland's status as a distinctive visual and material cultural signifier within a diverse range of international popular cultures from the eighteenth century to the present.

Contents:

Intro

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements of Original Publishers

Personal Acknowledgements

Contributors

Editor's Introduction: Jonathan Murray

1. Ashes and Diamonds

2. The Roots of the Western

3. Pickup on South Street

4. Extract from Underworld U.S.A.

5. Politicising Scottish Film Culture

6. Crossfire and the Anglo-American Critical Tradition

7. Breaking the Signs: Scotch Myths as Cultural Struggle

8. Scotland and Cinema: The Iniquity of the Fathers

9. The Maggie

10. National Identities

11. TV Commercials: Moving Statues and Old Movies

12. Tele-history: The Dragon Has Two Tongues

13. Scotland's Story

14. The Dialectic of National Identity: The Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1938

15. The New Scottish Cinema?

16. The Rises and Falls of the Edinburgh International Film Festival

17. A Dram for All Seasons: The Diverse Identities of Scotch

18. Scottish Culture: A Reply to David McCrone

19. In Praise of a Poor Cinema

20. Wake for a Glasgow Culture Hero

21. The Cultural Necessity of a Poor Celtic Cinema

22. Culloden: A Pre-emptive Strike

23. Casablanca: Where Have All the Fascists Gone?

24. The Scottish Discursive Unconscious

25. Chinese Boxes and Russian Dolls: Tracking the Elusive Cinematic City

26. Artists and Philistines: The Irish and Scottish Film Milieux

27. Braveheart and the Scottish Aesthetic Dementia

28. The Exquisite Corpse of Rab(elais) C(opernicus) Nesbitt

29. Mise-en-scène Degree Zero: Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï

30. The Critics Who Knew Too Little: Hitchcock and the Absent Class Paradigm

31. Caledonianising Macbeth, or, How Scottish is 'The Scottish Play'?

32. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Cultural Struggle in the British Film Institute.

33. Transatlantic Scots, Their Interlocutors and the Scottish Discursive Unconscious

34. Scotch Myths, Scottish Film Culture and the Suppression of Ludic Modernism

35. Bring Furrit the Tartan-Necks! Nationalist Intellectuals and Scottish Popular Culture

36. Vanished or Banished? Murray Grigor as Absent Scots Auteur

Author's Afterword: Colin McArthur

Select Bibliography

Indexes.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-3995-1288-9

1-3995-1289-7

OCLC:

1428234368