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- catalog abstract ""Hollywood's 1954 musical extravaganza Brigadoon and, more recently, Mel Gibson's epic Braveheart, continue to have enormous resonance for Scots at home and throughout the world. For the wider international audience, often with no direct knowledge of Scotland, such films provide general impressions of 'Scottishness'. This provocative book questions the ways in which these films represent Scotland and the Scots and looks closely at that peculiar cluster of images and stories whereby Scotland is (mis)recognised and 'known'. Colin McArthur follows Brigadoon through the worlds of 1940s Broadway theatre and 1950s Hollywood, and documents the contempt the film has elicited, particularly from the Scots intelligentsia. Recognising its problematic representation of 'Scotland', he nevertheless succumbs to Brigadoon's charm and artistry, but finds no such mitigating features in Braveheart. Tracing that 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 the film, given its narrative antecedents, necessarily distorts history, even providing a sinister appeal to the proto-fascist psyche."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13027264.
- catalog coverage "Scotland In motion pictures.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Hollywood's 1954 musical extravaganza Brigadoon and, more recently, Mel Gibson's epic Braveheart, continue to have enormous resonance for Scots at home and throughout the world. For the wider international audience, often with no direct knowledge of Scotland, such films provide general impressions of 'Scottishness'. This provocative book questions the ways in which these films represent Scotland and the Scots and looks closely at that peculiar cluster of images and stories whereby Scotland is (mis)recognised and 'known'. Colin McArthur follows Brigadoon through the worlds of 1940s Broadway theatre and 1950s Hollywood, and documents the contempt the film has elicited, particularly from the Scots intelligentsia.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-218) and indexes.".
- catalog description "List of illustrations -- General editor's introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Where did brigadoon come from? -- Brigadoon and the broadway musical -- Brigadoon and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- Marketing, using and abusing Brigadoon -- Scotland and the Braveheart effect -- Braveheart: A (Quasi-) Barthesian reading in slow motion -- 'No' a fuckin' dry eye in the hoose': Braveheart's 'gift of a thistle' sequence -- 'That's show business!': 'What' and 'Why' of Braveheart's historical distortions -- It takes one to know one: Braveheart's appeal to the proto-fascist psyche -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of films -- General index.".
- catalog description "Recognising its problematic representation of 'Scotland', he nevertheless succumbs to Brigadoon's charm and artistry, but finds no such mitigating features in Braveheart. Tracing that 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 the film, given its narrative antecedents, necessarily distorts history, even providing a sinister appeal to the proto-fascist psyche."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "ix, 228 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1860649270".
- catalog isPartOf "Cinema and society series".
- catalog isPartOf "Cinema and society.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : I.B. Tauris,".
- catalog spatial "Scotland In motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "791.4362411 21".
- catalog subject "Braveheart (Motion picture)".
- catalog subject "Brigadoon (Motion picture)".
- catalog subject "PN1995.9.S27 M38 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "List of illustrations -- General editor's introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Where did brigadoon come from? -- Brigadoon and the broadway musical -- Brigadoon and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- Marketing, using and abusing Brigadoon -- Scotland and the Braveheart effect -- Braveheart: A (Quasi-) Barthesian reading in slow motion -- 'No' a fuckin' dry eye in the hoose': Braveheart's 'gift of a thistle' sequence -- 'That's show business!': 'What' and 'Why' of Braveheart's historical distortions -- It takes one to know one: Braveheart's appeal to the proto-fascist psyche -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of films -- General index.".
- catalog title "Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots : distortions of Scotland in Hollywood cinema / Colin McArthur.".
- catalog type "text".