Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements of Original Publishers
- Personal Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Dedication
- Editor’s Introduction
- 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
- Select Bibliography
- Indexes
Contributors
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements of Original Publishers
- Personal Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Dedication
- Editor’s Introduction
- 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
- Select Bibliography
- Indexes
- Type
- Chapter
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- Cinema, Culture, ScotlandSelected Essays, pp. xiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2024