Scotland: Global Cinema Genres, Modes and Identities David Martin-Jones
October 2009 Hb 978 0 7486 3391 3 £55.00
224pp 234 x 156 mm 10 illustrations
A study of film production in Scotland in the 1990s and 2000s
Description The Author What is your favourite fantasy Scotland? Perhaps you enjoyed Whisky Galore! or David Martin-Jonesis senior lecturer Brigadoon, or maybe The Wicker Man is to your taste, Local Hero or Highlander? Yet in Film Studies at The University of St have you also considered Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Rob Roy, Dog Soldiers, Danny the Dog, Andrews in Scotland. He is author of Festival, The Water Horse, Carla’s Song, Trainspotting and Red Road? Scotland: Global Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity Cinema is the first book to focus exclusively on the unprecedented explosion of (Edinburgh University Press, 2006). 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 Readership - including Scotland, England, France, the United States and India - who braved the weather to shoot in Scotland. Undergraduate students of Film Studies, Scottish Studies and Media & Significantly broadening the scope of previous debates, Scotland: Global Cinema Cultural Studies. 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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Endorsements In this timely new book David Martin-Jones advances the serious study of Scottish cinema, locating Scottish production firmly within current issues in transnational cinema studies, foregrounding the issue of popular genres, and highlighting a number of films that have been neglected or ignored in other recent accounts. This is a welcome and valuable contribution that helps us to understand the sheer complexity of the term “Scottish film” - as simultaneously a process of artistic collaboration, a mode of cultural expression and a vibrant creative industry – and its wider location within a changing world. Professor Duncan Petrie, University of York Wonderfully concrete, engaging, and detailed, Scotland: Global Cinema patiently and systematically explores the fascinating phenomenon of global films shot in Scotland. David Martin-Jones helps us to see what the much-used term “global cinema” might actually mean. Professor Mette Hjort, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Scottish cinema is extremely fortunate in having chroniclers as gifted as Colin MacArthur, John Caughie and Duncan Petrie. To these must now be added David Martin-Jones, who draws on a remarkably diverse range of films to produce an absolutely fascinating account of the many and varied ways in which Scotland has been imagined in contemporary cinema. Professor Julian Petley, Brunel University.
Table of Contents PART I: POPULAR GENRES 1. The Costume Drama 2. The Comedy 3. The Road Movie 4. The Horror Film 5. The Loch Ness Monster Movie 6. The Gangster Film PART II: MODES OF PRODUCTION 7. European Art Films to Order 8. The British Social Realist Tradition and Its Transformations 9. The American Independent Cinema Model and the Woman's Film 10. Bollywood Films and Scotland
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