Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements of Original Publishers ix
5. Personal Acknowledgements x
6. Contributors xi
7. Editor’s Introduction 1
8. CHAPTER 1 Ashes and Diamonds 29
9. CHAPTER 2 The Roots of the Western 35
10. CHAPTER 3 Pickup on South Street 45
11. CHAPTER 4 Extract from Underworld U.S.A. 49
12. CHAPTER 5 Politicising Scottish Film Culture 69
13. CHAPTER 6 Crossfire and the Anglo-American Critical Tradition 77
14. CHAPTER 7 Breaking the Signs: Scotch Myths as Cultural Struggle 85
15. CHAPTER 8 Scotland and Cinema: The Iniquity of the Fathers 97
16. CHAPTER 9 The Maggie 121
17. CHAPTER 10 National Identities 133
18. CHAPTER 11 TV Commercials: Moving Statues and Old Movies 139
19. CHAPTER 12 Tele-history: The Dragon Has Two Tongues 143
20. CHAPTER 13 Scotland’s Story 151
21. CHAPTER 14 The Dialectic of National Identity: The Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1938 159
22. CHAPTER 15 The New Scottish Cinema? 171
23. CHAPTER 16 The Rises and Falls of the Edinburgh International Film Festival 181
24. CHAPTER 17 A Dram for All Seasons: The Diverse Identities of Scotch 195
25. CHAPTER 18 Scottish Culture: A Reply to David McCrone 205
26. CHAPTER 19 In Praise of a Poor Cinema 219
27. CHAPTER 20 Wake for a Glasgow Culture Hero 229
28. CHAPTER 21 The Cultural Necessity of a Poor Celtic Cinema 235
29. CHAPTER 22 Culloden: A Pre-emptive Strike 249
30. CHAPTER 23 Casablanca: Where Have All the Fascists Gone? 273
31. CHAPTER 24 The Scottish Discursive Unconscious 279
32. CHAPTER 25 Chinese Boxes and Russian Dolls: Tracking the Elusive Cinematic City 289
33. CHAPTER 26 Artists and Philistines: The Irish and Scottish Film Milieux 317
34. CHAPTER 27 Braveheart and the Scottish Aesthetic Dementia 331
35. CHAPTER 28 The Exquisite Corpse of Rab(elais) C(opernicus) Nesbitt 349
36. CHAPTER 29 Mise-en-scène Degree Zero: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï 371
37. CHAPTER 30 The Critics Who Knew Too Little: Hitchcock and the Absent Class Paradigm 385
38. CHAPTER 31 Caledonianising Macbeth, or, How Scottish is ‘The Scottish Play’? 403
39. CHAPTER 32 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Cultural Struggle in the British Film Institute 427
40. CHAPTER 33 Transatlantic Scots, Their Interlocutors and the Scottish Discursive Unconscious 449
41. CHAPTER 34 Scotch Myths, Scottish Film Culture and the Suppression of Ludic Modernism 469
42. CHAPTER 35 Bring Furrit the Tartan-Necks! Nationalist Intellectuals and Scottish Popular Culture 487
43. CHAPTER 36 Vanished or Banished? Murray Grigor as Absent Scots Auteur 503
44. Author’s Afterword: Colin McArthur 513
45. Select Bibliography 523
46. Index of Names 527
47. Film Titles 531
48. Ideas, Institutions and Non-Film Texts Index 536