Meir, Christopher (2007) Underwriting national sovereignty?: policy, the market and Scottish cinema, 1982- present. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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This thesis aims to re-examine the industrial and cultural landscape of Scottish cinema since the advent of public funding institutions for the support of indigenous filmmaking. This period in Scottish cinema has been described by historians as one in which subsidy bodies have created the conditions necessary for the unprecedented flourishing of internationally high-profile national cinema production throughout the last twenty-five years. By taking a 'bottom up' approach to the period and closely analysing six films in relation to their production and reception contexts, the thesis seeks to break from the survey formats which have dominated Scottish cinema historiography and to more thoroughly explore the relationships that have existed between key films from this period, the funding bodies that have supported them and the audiences that have consumed them. In so doing it attempts at various points to supplement, qualify and critique a number of assumptions and arguments that have dominated the field of Scottish cinema studies, all while providing detailed critical and historical treatments of a number of important and sometimes overlooked films from the period.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Ae fond kiss (Motion picture), Local hero (Motion picture), Morvern caller (Motion picture), Mrs. Brown (Motion picture), Pyaar ishq aur mohabbat (Motion picture), Young Adam (Motion picture), Motion pictures -- Scotland -- History, Motion picture industry -- Scotland, Motion picture industry -- Subsidies
Official Date:	September 2007
Dates:	Date Event September 2007 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Film and Television Studies
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Brunsdon, Charlotte
Sponsors:	University of Warwick. Humanities Research Centre (HRC)
Format of File:	pdf
Extent:	342 leaves
Language:	eng

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