Screening Scotland

by Petrie, Duncan

• ISBN13: 9780851707853
• ISBN10: 0851707858
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-26
• Publisher: British Film Inst

Summary

This title provides an overview of developments within Scottish film making, and looks at the institutional context within which successes such as Regeneration , Trainspotting , Carla's Song , and Mrs. Brown have appeared. It also examines the history of Scottish film production.

Author Biography

Duncan Petrie is the Director of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Introduction: Some Key Issues in the Study of Scottish Cinema	1	(14)
PART ONE: EXTERNAL CONSTRUCTION
Scotland and the British Cinema	15	(17)
The View from the Metropolis	32	(21)
The Jocobite Legacy	53	(21)
An Urban Alternative	74	(23)
PART TWO: THE MAKING OF A NATIONAL CINEMA
Scotland and the Documentary	97	(26)
The Role of Television	123	(25)
A Scottish Art Cinema	148	(24)
The New Scottish Cinema: Institutions	172	(19)
The New Scottish Cinema: Themes and Issues	191	(36)
Conclusion: Into the Twenty-first Century	222	(5)
Appendix One: Institutional Funding for Scottish Production	227	(1)
Appendix Two: The Short-Film Schemes	228	(3)
Bibliography	231	(7)
List of Illustrations	238	(1)
Index	239