Edinburgh University Press
Cinema, Culture, Scotland
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About this book
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
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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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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
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CHAPTER 8 Scotland and Cinema: The Iniquity of the Fathers
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CHAPTER 9 The Maggie
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CHAPTER 10 National Identities
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CHAPTER 11 TV Commercials: Moving Statues and Old Movies
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CHAPTER 12 Tele-history: The Dragon Has Two Tongues
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CHAPTER 13 Scotland’s Story
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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?
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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
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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
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CHAPTER 26 Artists and Philistines: The Irish and Scottish Film Milieux
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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
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Film Titles
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Ideas, Institutions and Non-Film Texts Index
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