"Brigadoon", "Braveheart" and the Scots : Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema Hardback
by Colin McArthur
Part of the Cinema and Society series
Hardback
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The films "Brigadoon" and "Braveheart" have an enormous resonance both for Scots throughout the world and the wide audience of non-Scots for whom such films provide general impressions of "Scottishness".
This provocative book discusses the films' representations of Scotland and the Scots, looking at that cluster of images and stories whereby Scotland is (mis)recognized and yet often comes to be "known".
Colin McArthur explores "Brigadoon" and documents the contempt the film has elicited, particularly from the Scots intelligentsia.
He succumbs to "Brigadoon's" charm, but finds no such mitigating features in "Braveheart".
Tracing the film's appropriation by political, touristic and sporting figures, he argues that, far from being "about" Scottish history, it is primarily "about" Hollywood and its cinematic traditions.
He looks at the way film distorts history and examines "Braveheart's" sinister appeal to the proto-fascist psyche.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 20 b&w illustrations
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:26/09/2003
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- ISBN:9781860649271
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 20 b&w illustrations
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:26/09/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9781860649271
