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Cinema, Culture, Scotland: Selected Essays
1399512862 pdf 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 Scotlands status as a distinctive visual and material cultural signifier within a diverse range of international popular cultures from the eighteenth century to the present. Read more