By David Martin-Jones
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3391-3
Price: £60.00 (UK)
Edinburgh University Press, 2009
An original remapping of contemporary filmmaking in Scotland, Scotland: Global Cinema analyses the ingenious ways in which this vibrant national cinema inserts itself into global flows of film production. Circumnavigating the ubiquitous tartan, Martin-Jones undertakes a surprisingly diverse analysis of, amongst others, Scottish art films (Red Road), English horror movies (Dog Soldiers), Bollywood films (Kuch Kuch Hota Hai), French action movies (Danny the Dog), and US/UK coproductions (Loch Ness), to tease out the forgotten histories of popular genre filmmaking in Scotland and the different identities (national, transnational, diasporic, global/local) created in these cinematic ‘fantasy Scotlands’. Brigadoon is no longer a dirty word!
