Cinema, Culture, Scotland

Selected Essays

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by Colin McArthur and Jonathan Murray

Type: Essays
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Keywords: Scotland, Great Britain
Publishing date: 2024 (January 12, 2024)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English

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Hardcover • 552 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-3995-1286-2

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Book Presentation:
Anthologises key works from the oeuvre of Colin McArthur, a pioneering critic within Anglophone film and Scottish cultural studies
• 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
• Includes two newly written synthesising reflections on this important body of individual scholarship, in the form of an editorial introduction and an authorial afterword
• Enables established, emerging, and future generations of scholars to discover and re/assess the career of one of Anglophone Film Studies’ founding and most distinctive and influential critical voices
• Enhances historical and intellectual awareness and evaluative understanding of multiple fields and traditions of debate within Anglophone Film Studies and modern Scottish Cultural Studies
• Supports enhanced understanding of a range of intellectual and creative milieus that have shaped both historical and contemporary Scottish and British moving image and broader popular cultures

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.

About the authors:
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.

Press Reviews:
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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