Scottish cinema : texts and contexts /

Beginning in the early 1980s and continuing today, Scottish cinema has over the last three decades seen an unprecedented number of international successes. Films ranging from Local Hero to The Last King of Scotland have not only raised the profile of film-making north of Hadrian's Wall, but hav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meir, Christopher (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2015.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1mf71d9
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: surveying Scottish cinema, 1979-present
  • 'Raking over' Local Hero again: national cinema, Indigenous creativity and the international market
  • Mrs Brown: Scottish cinema in an age of devolved public service broadcasting
  • Lynne Ramsay, cross-over cinema and Morvern Callar
  • The many authors of Young Adam
  • Importing national cinema: Ken Loache, Ae Fond Kiss and multicultural Scottish cinema
  • Not British, Scottish?: The Last King of Scotland and post-imperial Scottish cinema
  • Conclusions.