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Contact the Discovery team ([email protected]) with any queries about the use or acknowledgement of this work. 296 Bibliography Primary Sources - Barke Barke, James, The End of the High Bridge (London: Collins, 1935). - The Green Hills Far Away: A Chapter in Autobiography (London and Glasgow: Collins, 1940). - The Land of the Leal (London: Collins, 1939; repr. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987). - Major Operation: The Play of the Novel (Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1943). - Major Operation: The Saga of a Scottish City (London: Collins, 1936; repr. 1955). - The Wild Macraes (London: Collins, 1934) - The Wind that Shakes the Barley (London: Collins, 1946). - The World His Pillow (London: Collins, 1933). 297 Archive Material Except where otherwise stated, all material retained in the James Barke Archive, Special Archives Collection, Mitchell Library, Glasgow. ‘Arthur’, a letter to James Barke, dated 11 November 1935, and sent from Dongouerovskaya Slobada, Dom Za Kv. 113, Moscow, USSR. Barke, James, a letter to Neil M. Gunn, dated 2 February 1931. - letter to Neil Gunn, dated 11 May 1931. - letter to the publicity manager at Collins Publishers, dated 5 January 1933. - a letter to Neil M. Gunn, dated 25 January 1934. - letter to T.F. Powys, written in 1934. - a letter addressed to ‘Arthur’, written in 1935. - a letter addressed to ‘My Dear Kerr’, dated 27 February 1936. - letter addressed to ‘My Dear Kerr’, dated 3 March 1936. - letter to Collins Publishers, dated 28 April 1936. - letter to Collins Publishers, dated 20 August 1936. - letter to E. Gaitens, dated 3 February 1938. - note written in April 1938 and eventually included in The Land of the Leal (London: Collins, 1939; repr. Edinburgh: Cannongate, 1987. - letter to Neil M. Gunn, dated 20 May 1938. - letter to Neil M. Gunn, dated 29 October 1938. - letter to Collins Publishers, dated 6 December 1938. - an unattributed note, dated 19 December 1938. - letter to Collins Publishers, dated 14 April 1939. - letter to Albert Mackie at The Evening News, Glasgow, dated 29 April 1939. - letter to Neil M. Gunn, simply dated 1941. - letter to Herbert Marshall, dated 30 August 1942. 298 - letter to Albert Mackie, dated 12 October 1945. - letter to ‘O.H.’, dated 25 February 1946. - letter addressed to ‘Dear Jim’, dated 13 September 1946. - letter to John Allan, dated 27 January 1954. - ‘A Lie About the Highlands’, Glasgow Weekly Herald, 6 November 1937. - ‘Big Business in Gaeldom’, Glasgow Weekly Herald, 25 April 1936. - ‘Dialectics, World Politics and a Lovely Girl’, Glasgow Weekly Herald, 2 January 1937. - ‘Film Investigation: “Clydeside”’. - ‘Living in Scotland’, The Scottish Field, (January 1956), (cutting). - ‘Newspaper Leader on the Place of Cinema’, (hand-written essay). - The Night of the Big Blitz (1940), (typescript). - an essay signed off as ‘Twenty-Five’, and addressed from 43 Glanderston Drive, Glasgow. - handwritten review of Edwin Muir’s Scott & Scotland (1936). Barke, James, pictured with Willie Gallacher ‘after the culmination of the protest hunger march, 1930s’ (according to the note on the rear of the photograph). ‘Biographer of Burns in Five Novels’, an obituary for James Barke, The Glasgow Herald, 21 March 1958. Brandane, John, review of The World His Pillow, in an otherwise unidentified cutting. Campbell, J. R., ‘Two Worlds in the 2nd City’, Daily Worker, 18 September 1936. ‘Death of a Scots Novelist’, an obituary for James Barke, The Scotsman, 21 March 1958. Film Society of Glasgow 150th Meeting Commemorative Pamphlet, retained at the National Library of Scotland (Scottish Screen Archive), Montrose Avenue, Glasgow. 299 Film Society of Glasgow Constitution and AGM ‘minutes’ book, retained at the National Library of Scotland (Scottish Screen Archive), Montrose Avenue, Glasgow. Film Society of Glasgow Programme, Fourth Season, 32nd Performance on 26 February 1933. Gould, Gerald, ‘The Second City of the Empire’, The Observer, 20 September 1936. Grant, James L., ‘A Socialist Novel’, review of The World His Pillow, (typescript). Grassic Gibbon, Lewis, a letter to James Barke, dated 24 January 1934. Grieve, C. M., transcript of his eulogy at the Committal Service of James Barke, at New Kilpatrick Cemetery, Bearsden, 24 March 1958. Gunn, Neil M., a letter to James Barke, dated 11 February 1931. Gunn, Neil M., a letter to James Barke, dated 21 May 1938. Hope, Gordon, ‘Middle-Class Glasgow Goes Communist: Remarkable Novel of Life in the Second City’, in an otherwise unidentified newspaper cutting, dated 17 October 1936. Jones, Jack, ‘Glasgow Jottings’, a review of the stage play of Major Operation, in an undated (though assumed to be late 1941/early 1942 when the play was staged in Glasgow) newspaper cutting. Mackie, Bert, a letter to James Barke in the Evening Citizen, 3 October 1945. Magnusson, Magnus, ‘Novelist who Made and Lost a Fortune: The Man Who Reshaped the Burns Legend’, Scottish Daily Express, 21 March 1958. Marshall, Herbert, a letter to James Barke, dated 9 September 1942. Marshall, Herbert, a letter to James Barke, dated 28 September 1945. Miller, J. Harrison, a letter to the editor on the subject of the Scottish Novel, Glasgow Herald, 2 December 1961. Nobbs, J., a letter to James Barke, dated 22 August 1947. ‘O.H.’, 3 Camstradden Drive, Bearsden, Glasgow, writing to James Barke in a letter dated 3 November 1943. ‘O.H.’, a letter sent from the Citizen’s Theatre, dated 20 February 1946. Review of The Wild MacRaes from Glasgow Herald, dated 6 March 1934, contained in a note of reviews collated by Barke. 300 Review of The End of the High Bridge, by Broadcasting Station, Toronto CFRB, dated 3 March 1935. Review of Land of the Leal, Daily Mail, 1 June 1939. Russell, J. A., ‘Obituary for James Barke’, Scottish Co-operator, 29 March 1958. Strachey, John, a letter to James Barke, dated 10 November 1936. 301 Primary Sources by Others Allan, Dot, Hunger March (London: Hutchison, 1934). Auden, W. H. and Christopher Isherwood, On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts (1937 – 38) in W. H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings 1928 – 1938, ed. by Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988). Brown, George Douglas, The House With the Green Shutters, ed. and with introduction by Cairns Craig (Edinburgh: Cannongate, 1996). Dos Passos, John, Manhattan Transfer (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925). Dreiser, Theodore, An American Tragedy (1925) (New York: Library of America, 2003). Gray, Alasdair, Lanark (Edinburgh: Cannongate, 1981). Gunn, Neil M., Morning Tide (Edinburgh: Porpoise Press, 1931; repr. London: Souvenir Press, 1975). Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914 – 1915) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992). Joyce, James, Ulysses (1922) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). 302 Filmography Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, dir. by Walter Ruttmann (Deutsche Vereins- Film and Les Productions Fox Europa, 1927). The Crowd, dir. by King Vidor (MGM, 1928). Ein Lichtspiel: Schwartz-Weiss-Grau, dir. by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy (1932), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWAXS5_MqsI&feature=related [accessed 29 November 2011]. Kuhle Wampe, dir. by Bertolt Brecht and Slatan Dudov (1931). Let Glasgow Flourish, (Dawn Cine Group, 1952), BFI Screenonline, http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/684532/synopsis.html [accessed 12 September 2010]. Mother, dir. by Vsevolod Pudovkin (Mezhrabpom-Rus, 1926), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI3jZtruxvA [accessed 29 November 2011]. Street Scene, dir. by King Vidor (Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1931), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFVJbNNWvXY [accessed 29 November 2011]. Strike, dir. by Sergei Eisenstein (Goskino and Proletkult, 1925). Tam Trauchle’s Troubles: Life in a Single End Tenement Flat in the 1930s, (Pathé Pictures, 1934), Scotland on Screen, http://scotlandonscreen.org.uk/database/record.php?usi=007-000-000-051-C [accessed 19 July 2011]. 303 Secondary Sources Adorno, Theodor W., Aesthetic Theory, ed. by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedmann, (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970); trans. and ed. with introduction by Robert Hullot-Kentor (London and New York: Continuum, 2004). Aitken, Ian, Alberto Cavalcanti: Realism, Surrealism and National Cinema (Trowbridge: Flicks Books, 2000). Aitken, Ian, Realist Film Theory and Cinema: the Nineteenth-Century Lukácsian and Intuitionist Realist Traditions (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006) Althusser, Louis, Reading Capital, trans. by Ben Brewster (orig.