Introduction: Scotland, National Identity and Cultural Production; PART ONE: POLITICS AND AESTHETICS; Chapter One: Down Among the Big Boys; Chapter Two: A New Flowering of Creativity; Chapter Three: Broadening the Cultural Franchise; Chapter Four: Ducking and Diving in the Nineties; PART TWO: THEMES AND TRADITIONS; Chapter Five: A Walk on the Dark Side; Chapter Six: Urban Investigations; Chapter Seven: Narratives of Childhood; Afterword: Devolution and Beyond; Bibliography and Filmography.
Duncan Petrie is Professor of Film at the University of York. He has written and edited numerous books on British and Scottish Cinema including Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry, The British Cinematographer and Screening Scotland.
A terrific book - racy, pacy and full of interesting insights and analysis. Not only does it offer ways for scholarship to go forward in the domain of Scottish studies and questions of national identity, it also impels the reader to go out and read the novels, see the films, revisit the television programmes -- Professor Susan Hayward, University of Exeter A terrific book - racy, pacy and full of interesting insights and analysis. Not only does it offer ways for scholarship to go forward in the domain of Scottish studies and questions of national identity, it also impels the reader to go out and read the novels, see the films, revisit the television programmes
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