Scotland: Global Cinema: Genres, Modes and Identities

David Martin-Jones

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2009

Scotland

Global Cinema: Genres, Modes and Identities

David Martin-Jones

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748633937

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What is your favourite fantasy Scotland? Perhaps you enjoyed Whisky Galore! or Brigadoon, or maybe The Wicker Man is to your taste, Local Hero or Highlander? Yet have you also considered Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Rob Roy, Dog Soldiers, Danny the Dog, Festival, The Water Horse, Carla's Song, Trainspotting and Red Road?

Scotland: Global Cinema is the first book to focus exclusively on the unprecedented explosion of filmmaking in Scotland in the 1990s and 2000s. It explores the various cinematic fantasies of Scotland created by contemporary filmmakers from all over the world - including Scotland, England, France, the United States and India - who braved the weather to shoot in Scotland. Significantly broadening the scope of previous debates, Scotland: Global Cinema provides analysis of ten different genres and modes prevalent in the 1990s/2000s: the comedy, road movie, Bollywood extravaganza, (Loch Ness) monster movie, horror film, costume drama, gangster flick, social realist melodrama, female friendship/US indie movie, and art cinema. These various chapters suggest a wealth of different histories of cinema in Scotland, and uncover the numerous identities - national, transnational, diasporic, global/local, gendered, sexual, religious - created by these approaches. Cinema in Scotland is situated in a global context through analysis of the intersection of transversal flows of filmmaking, tourism, trade and transnational fantasy typical of globalization, as they meet and mingle against the world famous cinematic landscapes of Scotland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
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Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction: Fantasy Scotlands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 Comedy: Global / Local Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
CHAPTER 2 Road Movie: Scotland in the World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
CHAPTER 3 Bollywood: Non-Resident Indian- Scotland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
CHAPTER 4 (Loch Ness) Monster Movie: A Return to Primal Scotland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
CHAPTER 5 Horror Film: History Hydes in the Highlands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
CHAPTER 6 Costume Drama: From Men in Kilts to Developing Diasporas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
CHAPTER 7 Gangster Film: Glasgow’s Transnational Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
CHAPTER 8 Social Realist Melodrama: Middle-class Minorities and Floundering Fathers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
CHAPTER 9 Female Friendship/US Indie: Women Talking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
CHAPTER 10 Art Cinema: The Global Limits of Cinematic Scotland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 10 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

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Published: October 1, 2009
ISBN: 9780748633937