Cinema, Culture, Scotland

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.

Hollywood cinema · Popular culture · Scottish cinema · Scottish national identity · Cinema and Media Studies · Cinema History and Criticism · South Asian Cinema and Culture