Sunshine on Leith
Sunshine on Leith Art, Architecture, and Film in Scottish Nationalism and Culture, 1945-1999 Andrew Lummus HIST400b: Senior Thesis Advised by Professors Linda Gerstein and James Krippner May 13, 2021 Table of Contents Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………… i Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………. ii Introduction – A Glimpse of Scotland………………………………………………………… 1 Section I – Background to Foreground: National(ist) Identity, 1945-1969………………… 5 Section II – Highlight and Lowlight: Nationalist Surge and Fall, 1970-1989…………...… 15 Section III – National Diffraction: Identity in Visual Culture, 1990-1999……………….... 29 Section IV – Image Synthesis: National Unity, 1993-1999……………………...……………47 Conclusion – Seeing Scotland Anew………………………………………………………….. 58 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………… 61 i Acknowledgements First, I must thank the professors who helped shape me into the scholar I am today. Since sophomore year and through my thesis, Professor Gerstein has given me some of the most cutting and helpful criticism on my writing, and my current writing standard is indebted to her. She understands exactly what I mean to say, and holds me accountable to expressing that properly. She does not let me get away with logical reaches or imprecise terminology, and has fostered my interests in nationalism and architectural/art history. Professor Krippner, my major advisor, has had a massive influence on me as a historian over the course of college. Through my four courses and thesis work with him, he has taught me how to read history through images, how to perceive gaps in histories that exist, and how to understand culture and society from the smallest of samples. I must thank my family, in particular my parents, stepfather, and sister, for getting me through college. To my parents for their inspiration and support to better myself through education, and to my sister for the unwavering confidence she has had in me, thank you.
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