A passionate and informed collection of essays that metes out tough love to the past and present of Scottish cinema. Scottish Cinema Now picks up on - and sometimes picks on - old arguments about the culture, industry and financing of Scottish film, and develops new ones. The new insights are refreshingly revisionist and break new ground in a number of areas: video art, international marketing, gender, kailyard, and the rhetoric and legacy of New Scottish Cinema. No-one who is teaching...
More DescriptionA passionate and informed collection of essays that metes out tough love to the past and present of Scottish cinema. Scottish Cinema Now picks up on - and sometimes picks on - old arguments about the culture, industry and financing of Scottish film, and develops new ones. The new insights are refreshingly revisionist and break new ground in a number of areas: video art, international marketing, gender, kailyard, and the rhetoric and legacy of New Scottish Cinema. No-one who is teaching or studying Scottish film or culture can ignore this book. Nor should filmmakers or politicians, as it has quite a policy kick. Mark Cousins, Film Critic Basically Scotish Cinema Now is a state of the cinematic nation book, a slim volume that brings together some of the best writers who have something to say about Scotish film and the strengths and weaknesses it possesses and why these strengths and weaknesses happen to be there Tony Mckibbin