Christopher Meir

Scottish cinema

Texts and contexts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 411g
• ISBN-13: 9780719086359
• ISBN-10: 0719086353
• Artikelnr.: 41312115

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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