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Cinema, Culture, Scotland Selected Essays

McArthur Colin Murray Jonathan
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781399512879
Publisert
2025-08-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
544

Forfatter
McArthur Colin
Redaktør
Murray Jonathan

Biografisk notat

Colin McArthur is former Head of the Distribution Division at the British Film Institute and former Visiting Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University and Queen Margaret University. He has written extensively on Hollywood cinema, British television and Scottish culture. His most recent book is Along the Great Divide (2020). Jonathan Murray is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The New Scottish Cinema (2015) and Discomfort and Joy (2011), a Contributing Writer for Cineaste magazine and co-Principal Editor of Journal of British Cinema and Television.

Cinema, Culture, Scotland Selected Essays

McArthur Colin Murray Jonathan
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Ranging from pioneering analyses of popular American cinema to ground-breaking studies of the representation of Scotland in visual and material culture, Colin McArthur’s writings have always, from the 1960s to the present day, constituted major interventions in their fields. It is thus particularly welcome that some of the finest examples are now readily accessible, and in such a diligently edited collection.

- Professor Julian Petley, Brunel University,

Cinema, Culture, Scotland is an autobiography of ideas by a pioneering, deeply committed writer on film and the wider culture, from angry young man to internationally recognised authority; it is also a history of English-speaking Film Studies since the mid-1960s by one of the discipline's key contributors. Much more than a 'legacy' volume set in stone, it should be a continuing inspiration to new generations of writers, thinkers and practitioners who take film seriously.

- Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, Former Rector of the Royal College of Art and Chair of Arts Council England; Award-winning Writer and Broadcaster,

This book adds to our understanding of [McArthur's] persistent, intelligent probing and its impact on Scottish culture. Jonathan Murray is to be thanked for putting the collection together.

- David Manderson, The Bottle Imp

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A major achievement of the new collection of essays assembled by the editor Jonathan Murray is that it brings together in one place a wide range of published work from longform monographs to short film reviews, much of it long unavailable or difficult to access.

- Alex Law, Media Education Journal

Colin McArthur is a rare writer to be cherished. This collection of 36 essays written between 1966 and 2020 plus an ‘Afterword’ represents McArthur’s large body of work through careful selections that cover his different interests and approaches. […] Anyone interested in Scottish film culture should read this book.

- Editor, ITP Global Film Blog

In a series of essays critiquing the film culture these institutions have promoted, [McArthur] excoriates their excessive emphasis on commercial success, their fetishisation of the form of storytelling favoured by American cinema, their pursuit of the mirage of a ‘Hollywood on Clyde’, and their marginalisation of culture.

- Graeme Purves, Bella Caledonia

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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Anthologises key works from the oeuvre of Colin McArthur, a pioneering critic within Anglophone film and Scottish cultural studies.
Editor’s Introduction, Jonathan Murray ‘Ashes and Diamonds’ (originally published in Screen Education, [Mar/Apr 1966]: 28–31) ‘The Roots of the Western’ (originally published in Cinema, [Oct 1969]: 11–13) ‘Pickup on South Street’ (originally published in Peter Wollen and David Will, eds., Samuel Fuller [Edinburgh: Edinburgh Film Festival ’69/Scottish International Review, 1969], 28–31) Extract from Underworld U.S.A. (London: Secker and Warburg in association the British Film Institute, 1972), 11–33) ‘Politicising Scottish Film Culture’ (originally published in New Edinburgh Review 34, no. 2 [1976]: 8–10) ‘Crossfire and the Anglo-American Critical Tradition’ (originally published in Film Form 1, no. 2 [1977]: 23-32) ‘Breaking the Signs: Scotch Myths as Cultural Struggle (originally published in Cencrastus, no. 7 [Winter 1981/2], 21–25) ‘Scotland and Cinema: the Iniquity of the Fathers’ (originally published in Scotch Reels: Scotland in Cinema and Television, ed. Colin McArthur [London: British Film Institute, 1982], 40–69) ‘The Maggie’ (originally published in Cencrastus, no. 12 [Spring 1983], 10–14) ‘National Identities’ (originally published in National Fictions: World War Two in British films and television, ed. Geoff Hurd [London: British Film Institute, 1984], 54–56) ‘TV Commercials: Moving Statues and Old Movies’ (originally published in Television Mythologies: Stars, Shows and Signs, ed. Len Masterman [London: Comedia, 1984], 63–66) ‘Telehistory: The Dragon Has Two Tongues’ (originally published in Cencrastus, no. 21 [Summer 1985], 40–42) ‘Scotland’s Story’ (originally published in Framework, no. 26–7 [1985], 64–74) ‘The Dialectic of National Identity: the Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1938’ (originally published in Popular Culture and Social Relations, eds. Tony Bennett, Colin Mercer and Janet Woollacott [Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986], 117–34) ‘The New Scottish Cinema?’ (originally published in Desperately Seeking Cinema: What Kind of Scottish Film-making Do We Want?, ed. Kenny Mathieson [Glasgow: Glasgow Film Theatre, 1988], 7–11) ‘The Rises and Falls of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’ (originally published in From Limelight to Satellite: a Scottish Film Book, ed. Eddie Dick [London/Glasgow: British Film Institute/Scottish Film Council], 91–102) ‘A Dram for All Seasons’ (originally published in Scots on Scotch, ed. Philip Hills [Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1991], 87–102) ‘Scottish Culture: a Reply to David McCrone’ (originally published in Scottish Affairs, no. 4 [1993], 95–106) ‘In Praise of a Poor Cinema’ (originally published in Sight and Sound 3, no. 8 [August 1993] 30–32) ‘Wake for a Glasgow Culture Hero’ (originally published in Scottish Film and Visual Arts, no. 6 [1993], 11–12) ‘The Cultural Necessity of a Poor Celtic Cinema’ (originally published in Border Crossing: Film in Ireland, Britain and Europe, eds. John Hill, Martin McLoone and Paul Hainsworth [London/Belfast: British Film Institute/Queen’s University Institute of Irish Studies, 1994], 112–25) ‘Culloden: a Pre-emptive Strike’ (originally published in Scottish Affairs, no. 9 [1994], 97–126) ‘Casablanca: Where Have All the Fascists Gone?’ (originally published in Random Access: Crisis and its Metaphors, eds. Pavel Buchler and Nikos Papastergiadis [London: Rivers Oram Press, 1995], pp. 85–94) ‘The Scottish Discursive Unconscious’ (originally published in Scottish Popular Theatre and Entertainment, eds. Alasdair Cameron and Adrienne Scullion [Glasgow: Glasgow University Library Studies, 1996], 81–89) ‘Chinese Boxes and Russian Dolls: Tracking the Elusive Cinematic City’ (originally published in The Cinematic City, ed. David B. Clarke [London: Routledge, 1997], 19–45) ‘Artists and Philistines: the Irish and Scottish Film Milieux’ (originally published in Journal for the Study of British Cultures 5, no. 2 [1998], 143–53) ‘Braveheart and the Scottish Aesthetic Dementia’ (originally published in Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History, ed. Tony Barta [London: Praeger, 1998], 167–87) ‘The Exquisite Corpse of R(abelais) C(opernicus) Nesbitt’ (originally published in Dissident Voices: the Politics of Television and Cultural Change, ed. Mike Wayne [London: Pluto Press, 1998], 107–26) ‘Mise-en-Scene Degree Zero: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï’ (originally published in French Film: Texts and Contexts, eds. Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau [London: Routledge, 2000], 189–201) ‘The Critics Who Knew Too Little: Hitchcock and the Absent Class Paradigm’ (originally published in Film Studies, no. 2 [2000], 15–28) ‘Caledonianising Macbeth, or How Scottish is the Scottish Play?’ (originally published in Scottish Affairs, no. 36 [2001], 12–39) ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Cultural Struggle in the British Film Institute’ (originally published in Journal of Popular British Cinema, no. 4 [2001], 112–27) ‘Transatlantic Scots, Their Interlocutors and the Scottish Discursive Unconscious’ (originally published in Transatlantic Scots, ed. Celeste Ray [Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press: 2005], 339–56) ‘Scotch Myths, Scottish Film Culture and the Suppression of Ludic Modernism’ (originally published in Scottish Cinema Now, eds. Jonathan Murray, Fidelma Farley and Rod Stoneman [Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009], pp. 39–55) ‘Bring Furrit the Tartan-Necks! Nationalist Intellectuals and Scottish Popular Culture’ (originally published in Scottish Affairs, no. 69 [2009], 75–92) ‘Vanished or Banished? Murray Grigor as Absent Scots Auteur’ (originally published in Directory of World Cinema: Scotland, eds. Bob Nowlan and Zach Finch [Bristol: Intellect Books, 2015], pp. 58–65) Author’s Afterword Select Bibliography
Les mer
Curates an extensive selection of key works (over half of which are currently out-of-print) by a leading Scottish and British film and cultural critic

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Ranging from pioneering analyses of popular American cinema to ground-breaking studies of the representation of Scotland in visual and material culture, Colin McArthur’s writings have always, from the 1960s to the present day, constituted major interventions in their fields. It is thus particularly welcome that some of the finest examples are now readily accessible, and in such a diligently edited collection.

- Professor Julian Petley, Brunel University,

Cinema, Culture, Scotland is an autobiography of ideas by a pioneering, deeply committed writer on film and the wider culture, from angry young man to internationally recognised authority; it is also a history of English-speaking Film Studies since the mid-1960s by one of the discipline's key contributors. Much more than a 'legacy' volume set in stone, it should be a continuing inspiration to new generations of writers, thinkers and practitioners who take film seriously.

- Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, Former Rector of the Royal College of Art and Chair of Arts Council England; Award-winning Writer and Broadcaster,

This book adds to our understanding of [McArthur's] persistent, intelligent probing and its impact on Scottish culture. Jonathan Murray is to be thanked for putting the collection together.

- David Manderson, The Bottle Imp

Se alle

A major achievement of the new collection of essays assembled by the editor Jonathan Murray is that it brings together in one place a wide range of published work from longform monographs to short film reviews, much of it long unavailable or difficult to access.

- Alex Law, Media Education Journal

Colin McArthur is a rare writer to be cherished. This collection of 36 essays written between 1966 and 2020 plus an ‘Afterword’ represents McArthur’s large body of work through careful selections that cover his different interests and approaches. […] Anyone interested in Scottish film culture should read this book.

- Editor, ITP Global Film Blog

In a series of essays critiquing the film culture these institutions have promoted, [McArthur] excoriates their excessive emphasis on commercial success, their fetishisation of the form of storytelling favoured by American cinema, their pursuit of the mirage of a ‘Hollywood on Clyde’, and their marginalisation of culture.

- Graeme Purves, Bella Caledonia

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.
Les mer
Anthologises key works from the oeuvre of Colin McArthur, a pioneering critic within Anglophone film and Scottish cultural studies.
Editor’s Introduction, Jonathan Murray ‘Ashes and Diamonds’ (originally published in Screen Education, [Mar/Apr 1966]: 28–31) ‘The Roots of the Western’ (originally published in Cinema, [Oct 1969]: 11–13) ‘Pickup on South Street’ (originally published in Peter Wollen and David Will, eds., Samuel Fuller [Edinburgh: Edinburgh Film Festival ’69/Scottish International Review, 1969], 28–31) Extract from Underworld U.S.A. (London: Secker and Warburg in association the British Film Institute, 1972), 11–33) ‘Politicising Scottish Film Culture’ (originally published in New Edinburgh Review 34, no. 2 [1976]: 8–10) ‘Crossfire and the Anglo-American Critical Tradition’ (originally published in Film Form 1, no. 2 [1977]: 23-32) ‘Breaking the Signs: Scotch Myths as Cultural Struggle (originally published in Cencrastus, no. 7 [Winter 1981/2], 21–25) ‘Scotland and Cinema: the Iniquity of the Fathers’ (originally published in Scotch Reels: Scotland in Cinema and Television, ed. Colin McArthur [London: British Film Institute, 1982], 40–69) ‘The Maggie’ (originally published in Cencrastus, no. 12 [Spring 1983], 10–14) ‘National Identities’ (originally published in National Fictions: World War Two in British films and television, ed. Geoff Hurd [London: British Film Institute, 1984], 54–56) ‘TV Commercials: Moving Statues and Old Movies’ (originally published in Television Mythologies: Stars, Shows and Signs, ed. Len Masterman [London: Comedia, 1984], 63–66) ‘Telehistory: The Dragon Has Two Tongues’ (originally published in Cencrastus, no. 21 [Summer 1985], 40–42) ‘Scotland’s Story’ (originally published in Framework, no. 26–7 [1985], 64–74) ‘The Dialectic of National Identity: the Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1938’ (originally published in Popular Culture and Social Relations, eds. Tony Bennett, Colin Mercer and Janet Woollacott [Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986], 117–34) ‘The New Scottish Cinema?’ (originally published in Desperately Seeking Cinema: What Kind of Scottish Film-making Do We Want?, ed. Kenny Mathieson [Glasgow: Glasgow Film Theatre, 1988], 7–11) ‘The Rises and Falls of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’ (originally published in From Limelight to Satellite: a Scottish Film Book, ed. Eddie Dick [London/Glasgow: British Film Institute/Scottish Film Council], 91–102) ‘A Dram for All Seasons’ (originally published in Scots on Scotch, ed. Philip Hills [Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1991], 87–102) ‘Scottish Culture: a Reply to David McCrone’ (originally published in Scottish Affairs, no. 4 [1993], 95–106) ‘In Praise of a Poor Cinema’ (originally published in Sight and Sound 3, no. 8 [August 1993] 30–32) ‘Wake for a Glasgow Culture Hero’ (originally published in Scottish Film and Visual Arts, no. 6 [1993], 11–12) ‘The Cultural Necessity of a Poor Celtic Cinema’ (originally published in Border Crossing: Film in Ireland, Britain and Europe, eds. John Hill, Martin McLoone and Paul Hainsworth [London/Belfast: British Film Institute/Queen’s University Institute of Irish Studies, 1994], 112–25) ‘Culloden: a Pre-emptive Strike’ (originally published in Scottish Affairs, no. 9 [1994], 97–126) ‘Casablanca: Where Have All the Fascists Gone?’ (originally published in Random Access: Crisis and its Metaphors, eds. Pavel Buchler and Nikos Papastergiadis [London: Rivers Oram Press, 1995], pp. 85–94) ‘The Scottish Discursive Unconscious’ (originally published in Scottish Popular Theatre and Entertainment, eds. Alasdair Cameron and Adrienne Scullion [Glasgow: Glasgow University Library Studies, 1996], 81–89) ‘Chinese Boxes and Russian Dolls: Tracking the Elusive Cinematic City’ (originally published in The Cinematic City, ed. David B. Clarke [London: Routledge, 1997], 19–45) ‘Artists and Philistines: the Irish and Scottish Film Milieux’ (originally published in Journal for the Study of British Cultures 5, no. 2 [1998], 143–53) ‘Braveheart and the Scottish Aesthetic Dementia’ (originally published in Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History, ed. Tony Barta [London: Praeger, 1998], 167–87) ‘The Exquisite Corpse of R(abelais) C(opernicus) Nesbitt’ (originally published in Dissident Voices: the Politics of Television and Cultural Change, ed. Mike Wayne [London: Pluto Press, 1998], 107–26) ‘Mise-en-Scene Degree Zero: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï’ (originally published in French Film: Texts and Contexts, eds. Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau [London: Routledge, 2000], 189–201) ‘The Critics Who Knew Too Little: Hitchcock and the Absent Class Paradigm’ (originally published in Film Studies, no. 2 [2000], 15–28) ‘Caledonianising Macbeth, or How Scottish is the Scottish Play?’ (originally published in Scottish Affairs, no. 36 [2001], 12–39) ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Cultural Struggle in the British Film Institute’ (originally published in Journal of Popular British Cinema, no. 4 [2001], 112–27) ‘Transatlantic Scots, Their Interlocutors and the Scottish Discursive Unconscious’ (originally published in Transatlantic Scots, ed. Celeste Ray [Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press: 2005], 339–56) ‘Scotch Myths, Scottish Film Culture and the Suppression of Ludic Modernism’ (originally published in Scottish Cinema Now, eds. Jonathan Murray, Fidelma Farley and Rod Stoneman [Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009], pp. 39–55) ‘Bring Furrit the Tartan-Necks! Nationalist Intellectuals and Scottish Popular Culture’ (originally published in Scottish Affairs, no. 69 [2009], 75–92) ‘Vanished or Banished? Murray Grigor as Absent Scots Auteur’ (originally published in Directory of World Cinema: Scotland, eds. Bob Nowlan and Zach Finch [Bristol: Intellect Books, 2015], pp. 58–65) Author’s Afterword Select Bibliography
Les mer
Curates an extensive selection of key works (over half of which are currently out-of-print) by a leading Scottish and British film and cultural critic

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399512879
Publisert
2025-08-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
544

Forfatter
McArthur Colin
Redaktør
Murray Jonathan

Biografisk notat

Colin McArthur is former Head of the Distribution Division at the British Film Institute and former Visiting Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University and Queen Margaret University. He has written extensively on Hollywood cinema, British television and Scottish culture. His most recent book is Along the Great Divide (2020). Jonathan Murray is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The New Scottish Cinema (2015) and Discomfort and Joy (2011), a Contributing Writer for Cineaste magazine and co-Principal Editor of Journal of British Cinema and Television.

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