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Cinema, Culture, Scotland

Selected Essays
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023

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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.
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.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Figures and Tables

    vii
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    Acknowledgements of Original Publishers

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    Personal Acknowledgements

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    Contributors

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    Editor’s Introduction

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    Jonathan Murray
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    CHAPTER 1 Ashes and Diamonds

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    CHAPTER 2 The Roots of the Western

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    CHAPTER 3 Pickup on South Street

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    CHAPTER 4 Extract from Underworld U.S.A.

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    CHAPTER 5 Politicising Scottish Film Culture

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    CHAPTER 6 Crossfire and the Anglo-American Critical Tradition

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    CHAPTER 7 Breaking the Signs: Scotch Myths as Cultural Struggle

    85
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    CHAPTER 8 Scotland and Cinema: The Iniquity of the Fathers

    97
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    CHAPTER 9 The Maggie

    121
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    CHAPTER 10 National Identities

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    CHAPTER 11 TV Commercials: Moving Statues and Old Movies

    139
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    CHAPTER 12 Tele-history: The Dragon Has Two Tongues

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    CHAPTER 13 Scotland’s Story

    151
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    CHAPTER 14 The Dialectic of National Identity: The Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1938

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    CHAPTER 15 The New Scottish Cinema?

    171
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    CHAPTER 16 The Rises and Falls of the Edinburgh International Film Festival

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

    195
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    CHAPTER 18 Scottish Culture: A Reply to David McCrone

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    CHAPTER 19 In Praise of a Poor Cinema

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    CHAPTER 20 Wake for a Glasgow Culture Hero

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    CHAPTER 21 The Cultural Necessity of a Poor Celtic Cinema

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    CHAPTER 22 Culloden: A Pre-emptive Strike

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    CHAPTER 23 Casablanca: Where Have All the Fascists Gone?

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    CHAPTER 24 The Scottish Discursive Unconscious

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

    289
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    CHAPTER 26 Artists and Philistines: The Irish and Scottish Film Milieux

    317
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    CHAPTER 27 Braveheart and the Scottish Aesthetic Dementia

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

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    CHAPTER 29 Mise-en-scène Degree Zero: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï

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

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    CHAPTER 31 Caledonianising Macbeth, or, How Scottish is ‘The Scottish Play’?

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

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

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

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

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

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    Author’s Afterword: Colin McArthur

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    Select Bibliography

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    Index of Names

    527
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    Film Titles

    531
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    Ideas, Institutions and Non-Film Texts Index

    536
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Film; Media & Cultural Studies
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