Meir Scottish cinema

Texts and contexts
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1183-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

An essential overview of the most exciting period in Scottish film history, an account which is both broad in historical scope and textually grounded in specific films

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meir, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: surveying Scottish cinema, 1979–present
1. ‘Raking over’ Local Hero again: national cinema, indigenous creativity and the international market
2. Mrs Brown: Scottish cinema in an age of devolved public service broadcasting
3. Lynne Ramsay, cross-over cinema and Morvern Callar
4. The many authors of Young Adam
5. Importing national cinema: Ken Loach, Ae Fond Kiss and multicultural Scottish cinema
6. Not British, Scottish?: The Last King of Scotland and post-imperial Scottish cinema
Conclusions
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Meir Christopher:
Christopher Meir is Lecturer in Film at the University of West Indies, St. AugustineChristopher Meir is Lecturer in Film at the University of West Indies, St. Augustine