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Scotland, its people and its history have long been a source of considerable fascination and inspiration for filmmakers, film scholars and film audiences worldwide. A significant number of critically acclaimed films made in the last twenty-five years have ignited passionate conversations and debates about Scottish national cinema. Its historical, industrial and cultural complexities and contradictions have made it all the more a focus of attention and interest for both popular audiences and scholarly critics.

 

Directory of World Cinema: Scotland provides an introduction to many of Scottish cinema’s most important and influential themes and issues, films and filmmakers, while adding to the ongoing discussion concerning how to make sense of Scotland’s cinematic traditions and contributions. Chapters on filmmakers range from Murray Grigor to Ken Loach, and Gaelic filmmaking, radical and engaged cinema, production, finance and documentary are just a few of the topics explored. Film reviews range from popular box office hits such as Braveheart, and Trainspotting to lesser known but equally engaging independent and lower budget productions, such as Shell and Orphans. This book is both a stimulating and accessible resource for a wide range of readers interested in Scottish film.


Introduction by the Editors


Industry Spotlight

Production


Marketing Mix

Finance


Location

Gaelic Film-making In Scotland


Cultural Crossover

Radical and Engaged Cinema


Directors

Bill Douglas

Bill Forsyth

Murray Grigor

Ken Loach

David Mackenzie

Peter Mullan

Lynne Ramsay

Margaret Tait


Mythic Visions: Critique and Counter-Critique


From Social Realism To Social Art Cinema and Beyond


Comedy, Fantasy and Horror 


Documentary 


 


 

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DIRECTORY OF WORLDCINEMA
EDITED BY BOB NOWLAN & ZACH FINCH SCOTLA
Volume 27
dIrectory of world cInema Scotland
Edîted by Bob Nowan and Zach Fînch
intellect Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA
Fîrst pubîshed în the UK în 2015 by Inteect Books, The Mî, Parna Road, Fîshponds, Brîsto, BS16 3JG, UK
Fîrst pubîshed în the USA în 2015 by Inteect Books, The Unîversîty of Chîcago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chîcago, IL 60637, USA
Copyrîght © 2015 Inteect Ltd
A rîghts reserved. No part of thîs pubîcatîon may be reproduced, stored în a retrîeva system, or transmîtted, în any form or by any means, eectronîc, mechanîca, photocopyîng, recordîng, or otherwîse, wîthout wrîtten permîssîon.
A cataogue record for thîs book îs avaîabe from the Brîtîsh Lîbrary.
Pubîsher: May Yao Pubîshîng Managers: Jeena Stanovnîk and Heather Gîbson
Cover photograph:Traînspottîng, courtesy of the Brîtîsh Fîm Instîtute. Cover desîgner: Hoy Rose Copy-edîtor: Emma Rhys Typesetter: John Teehan
Dîrectory of Word Cînema ISSN 2040-7971 Dîrectory of Word Cînema eISSN 2040-798X
Dîrectory of Word Cînema: Scotand ISBN 978-1-78320-394-9 Dîrectory of Word Cînema: Scotand eISBN 978-1-78320-395-6
Prînted and bound by Short Run Press, UK.
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SCOTTîsh cîNEMà oNLîNE 354 tEsT yOUR KNOWLEDgE 360 nOTEs oN cONTRîbUTORs 363 fîLMOgRàphY 368 contentS
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INDUsTRY SpOTLîghT Production
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lOCàTîON Gaeîc Fîm-makîng In Scotand
INTRODUCTîON bY ThE eDîTORs
dîRECTORs Bî DougasBî ForsythMurray Grîgor Ken Loach Davîd Mackenzîe Peter Muan Lynne Ramsay Margaret Taît
cULTURàL cROssOvER Radîca and Engaged Cînema
mYThîC VîsîONs: cRîTîqUE àND cOUNTER-cRîTîqUE Essay Revîews
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We thank a of our feow contrîbutors for theîr dedîcatîon, patîence and însîght. We thank Stephanîe Turner for aertîng us to the opportunîty to propose edîtîng and wrîtîng thîs book, as we as for brîngîng us to the attentîon of Inteect. At Inteect, we thank Amy Damutz, May Yao, Meanîe Marsha, Jeena Stanovnîk and Heather Gîbson for theîr îndîspensabe support and assîstance în makîng thîs book possîbe. We thank Janet McBaîn, retîred curator wîth the Scottîsh Screen Archîve, for her eary encouragement and hep în înîtîay contactîng potentîa contrîbutors. We thank Tony Dykes of the Brîtîsh Fîm Instîtute and Jennîfer Armîtage of Creatîve Scotand for theîr hep în provîdîng us îmages. And, for paînstakîng assîstance în formattîng and typescrîpt preparatîon, we thank Aex Long and Davîd Hammersborg. We aso thank Emma Rhys for her metîcuous and thorough work în copy-edîtîng. Bob thanks the staff of the Scottîsh Screen Archîve for theîr generosîty durîng hîs vîsît to screen and take notes on ims durîng Juy 2012. He aso acknowedges the învauabe assîstance provîded by the Unîversîty of Wîsconsîn-Eau Caîre irst through a unîversîty research and creatîve actîvîty grant în the sprîng semester of 2013 and second by way of sabbatîca throughout the 2013–14 academîc year. Bob thanks hîs coeagues în the Engîsh Department at the Unîversîty of Wîsconsîn-Eau Caîre for theîr înterest and support, as we as the students în hîs Fa 2010 and Fa 2012 Scottîsh Cînema casses, and în hîs Sprîng 2011 Scottîsh Crîme Fîctîon cass, for the same. He thanks, în addîtîon, a the îndîe rock, pop, fok, fok rock and foktronîca musîcîans from Scotand he has featured on hîs weeky radîo show,Insurgence, for many years, and who contînuay reînforce hîs strongy fet sense of connectîon wîth Scotand. And, above a ese, he thanks hîs co-edîtor Zach Fînch, and hîs partner and husband Andy Swanson, both of whom have gîven far more than can possîby be recounted în thîs short space to make thîs book a reaîty. Zach thanks hîs co-edîtor, Bob Nowan, for hîs patîence, guîdance, frîendshîp and much more; hîs partner and wîfe, Dana Bertesen, for her steadfast support; hîs parents, Don and Connîe Fînch; Wîîam H Phîîps; the Unîversîty of Wîsconsîn-Eau Caîre Engîsh Facuty; the North Caroîna State Unîversîty Fîm Studîes Facuty; and the Unîversîty of Wîsconsîn-Mîwaukee Engîsh and Fîm Studîes Facuty for everythîng they have done to hep hîm în hîs work on thîs book.
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IntroductIon By tHe edItorS
6Scotand
Scotand îs a sma natîon, and, as of the present wrîtîng, yet stî part of the Unîted Kîngdom of Great Brîtaîn and Northern Ireand, where Scotand îs a natîon wîthîn a kîngdom comprîsed of the four natîons of Engand, Scotand, Waes and Northern Ireand. Wîthîn the Unîted Kîngdom as a whoe, approxîmatey 83.5 per cent of the popuatîon îves în Engand, approxîmatey 8.5 per cent îves în Scotand, approxîmatey 5 per cent îves în Waes and approxîmatey 3 per cent îves în Northern Ireand. Even so, Scotand comprîses approxîmatey one-thîrd of the physîca terrîtory comprîsîng the Unîted Kîngdom, whîe Engand comprîses a îtte over one-haf. Nevertheess, Engand has ong occupîed a mutîpy prîvîeged posîtîon wîthîn the Unîted Kîngdom as a whoe, eadîng many foreîgners, especîay în the Unîted States, often enough to use ‘Engand’, ‘Brîtaîn’ and ‘the Unîted Kîngdom’ înterchangeaby, and even to refer to Scots as Engîsh – much to the justîied annoyance of Scots themseves. Scots have exerted an enormous împact on word hîstory (wîth Scots’ contrîbutîons as scîentîic înventors and to the phîosophîca egacy of the European Enîghtenment servîng as merey two of the most famous exampes of thîs împact). In addîtîon, Scotand and Scottîshness have ong exercîsed a consîderabe goba fascînatîon and appea (Scotand contînues to attract a sîgnîicanty hîgher eve of tourîsm, gîven îts share of the popuatîon, than the rest of the Unîted Kîngdom, whîe servîng as a seemîngy endessy protean stîmuus for romance and myth). What’s more, even over the course of the now over 300-pus years sînce the Act of Unîon în 1707 that effectîvey eîmînated Scotand as an îndependenty sovereîgn natîon-state, Scotand has retaîned a hîghy dîstînct natîona cuture as we as many hîghy dîstînct – and hîghy înluentîa – socîa înstîtutîons (încudîng în areas, for exampe, of aw, educatîon, reîgîon and the provîsîon of socîa wefare). ‘Scots’ îs îtsef today wîdey recognîzed by many înguîstîcs schoars as a fu-ledged anguage în îts own rîght, not sîmpy a dîaect of Engîsh, whîe Scottîsh Engîsh îs fu of words and phrases, as we as marked by accents and pronuncîatîons, that dîverge consîderaby from what îs commonpace în much of Engand. At the same tîme, as surveys of pubîc opînîon în recent decades repeatedy attest, Scots today îdentîfy as Scottîsh în much hîgher proportîons than they do as Brîtîsh. In addîtîon, sînce 1999, wîth the re-estabîshment of the Scottîsh parîament and the devoutîon of sîgnîicant sef-governîng authorîty – and natîona autonomy – to a Scottîsh government eected by the Scottîsh peope, Scottîsh dîstînctîveness îs now routîney manîfest and wîdey acknowedged, even by staunch Unîonîsts (î.e. by those who oppose fu Scottîsh îndependence, and who înstead support the contînuatîon of Scotand wîthîn the Unîted Kîngdom, and the contînued utîmate subordînatîon of the Scottîsh government în Edînburgh to the Unîted Kîngdom government în Westmînster).
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One strîkîng recent îustratîon of Scotand’s dîstînctîveness showed up în the resuts of the May 2010 UK parîament eectîon, where the Labour Party comfortaby won the argest number of votes across Scotand, whîe the Conservatîve Party comfortaby won the argest number of votes across much of Engand. Post-eectîon-resuts maps of the Unîted Kîngdom often depîcted Scotand as overwhemîngy red, for Labour, and Engand as overwhemîngy bue, for Conservatîve. Indeed, Scotand has maîntaîned – post-Thatcher, post-New Labour, and throughout the ate twentîeth century and eary twenty-irst century epoch of neo-îbera economîc orthodoxy broady unîtîng the poîtîcay centre-eft wîth the poîtîcay centre-rîght – sîgnîicanty stronger support for a contînuîng socîa democratîc form of wefare state capîtaîst socîety (as we as for a cuture that prîvîeges communa socîa bonds and the vîrtues of cass-based coectîve soîdarîty over îndîvîduaîsm and prîvatîzatîon) than în much of Engand (even though, as many on the broad eft have extensîvey argued and thoroughy documented, Scotand remaîns, în practîce, far from a substantîay egaîtarîan socîety). Another, more recent, îustratîon of the sharp poîtîca dîfference between Scotand and Engand occurred în the May 2011 Scottîsh parîamentary eectîon, where the Scottîsh Natîona Party, whîch ony operates în Scotand, won a majorîty of seats în the Scottîsh parîament to contînue another four years în charge of the Scottîsh government. Thîs eectîon resut îs a the more remarkabe because the system of eectîon to the Scottîsh parîament îs deîberatey desîgned to make ît much more dîficut than în the case of the UK parîament for a sînge party to wîn an outrîght majorîty. Fînay, and potentîay far more sîgnîicant than eîther of the two precedîng exampes, a natîonwîde referendum on Scottîsh îndependence îs due to take pace în September of 2014. Even îf thîs referendum faîs to wîn a majorîty, Scots today overwhemîngy support devoutîon of yet further governmenta powers to the Scottîsh parîament from the UK Parîament such that, whatever the resut of the vote come September of 2014, Scotand îs amost certaîn to become steadîy more dîstînct wîthîn, and steadîy more autonomous versus, the rest of the Unîted Kîngdom. In addîtîon, as many schoars have compeîngy argued, Scotand has achîeved an extent of cutura devoutîon over the course of the past thîrty years that has, îf anythîng, exceeded that of poîtîca devoutîon. Yet what ît means to be Scottîsh, and what îs conceîved to be dîstînctîve about Scotand and Scottîshness – past and present – contînue to functîon as sîtes of întense contestatîon, especîay among Scots themseves. Scotand, în fact, encompasses ‘many Scotands’ wîth theîr own consîderaby dîstînct characterîstîcs în turn – and these ‘Scotands’ can be dîstînguîshed aong înes of regîon, ocae, cass, ethnîcîty, gender, sexuaîty, generatîon, subcutura afiîatîon, poîtîca îdentîicatîon, anguage, reîgîon, and yet many more înes of demarcatîon. At the same tîme, the hîstory of modern Scotand has been obsessed wîthîmagînedScotands andîmagînedScottîshnesses, as we as wîthmythsof Scotand, andmythsof Scottîshness. These are neîther sîmpe fasehoods, nor îusîons (et aone deusîons), not by any means. These are, înstead, ways peope have represented to themseves and to others what they conceîve Scotand and Scottîshness to be – and to mean. These representatîons încude îmages peope conjure up în thînkîng, takîng and wrîtîng of Scotand and Scottîshness, as we as storîes peope te about how they conceîve of Scotand and Scottîshness. And these îmages and storîes în turn exert îmmense împact – and exercîse îmmense power. Imagînatîons of Scotand and Scottîshness exercîse enormous, rea effects, over what peope thînk, fee, beîeve and do în ‘rea îfe’. The same îs true of myths –these are myths peope îve by, and whîch they contînuay turn to and draw upon în seekîng to make sense of theîr own experîence, and that of others both (seemîngy) sîmîar to and dîfferent from themseves, both (seemîngy) cose to and dîstant from themseves, and both (seemîngy) reated to and unreated to themseves.
Introductîon7
Dîrectory of Word Cînema
Scottîsh cînema (aong wîth Scottîsh îterature and other înluentîa kînds of artîstîc, medîa and cutura productîon) represents a pre-emînent sîte through whîch the dîssemînatîon of dîverse, contestîng îmagînatîons – and myths – of Scotand and of Scottîshness takes pace. Yet the questîon of what constîtutes ‘Scottîsh cînema’ îs compîcated. Operatîng out of a sma natîon, Scots have ong strugged to ind adequate means to produce, dîstrîbute and exhîbît ims. They have îkewîse often strugged to secure adequate traînîng, as we as adequate means of sustaînîng a îveîhood through im-makîng such that they coud concentrate consîderabe tîme and energy to im-makîng. At the same tîme, Scottîsh im-makers have had to dea not ony wîth the goba hegemony of Hoywood, but aso the consîderabe weîght of contînenta European natîona cînemas, and the prîorîtîzatîon of the înterests of Engîsh im-makîng (and of Engîsh im-makers) wîthîn Brîtîsh natîona cînema. Nevertheess, Scots have often demonstrated consîderabe îngenuîty în indîng ways to make many împressîve ims, încudîng ims wîth dîstînctîvey Scottîsh accents, emphases, styes and lavours. Throughout the hîstory of im-makîng în Scotand, government support – on the Unîted Kîngdom eve, on the Scottîsh natîona eve and on regîona and oca eves wîthîn Scotand – has often proven vîta în enabîng Scottîsh ims to be produced, dîstrîbuted and exhîbîted. However, the forms by whîch thîs support has been made avaîabe, as we as the structures under whîch and the strîctures accordîng to whîch ît has been aocated have repeatedy shîfted, often consîderaby, as have the amounts avaîabe for the kînds of im-makîng projects Scottîsh im-makers have been most înterested în pursuîng. The 1990s, and especîay the atter haf of that decade, represented a breakthrough perîod for Scottîsh cînema, whîch some even dubbed a ‘renaîssance’, but Scottîsh im-makers today maîntaîn consîderabe uncertaînty, as we as anxîety, about what the future of government support wî be îke. Fîm-makers worry about actua and potentîa reductîons în state support for art and cuture as we as about ack of support for ims of artîstîc and cutura merît that are at the same tîme unîkey to generate substantîa commercîa revenue, especîay ims that are crîtîca, questîonîng, provocatîve and transgressîve. Yet Scottîsh im-makers have ong made ims dependent upon the support of, and învovement from, many peope outsîde of Scotand, not reyîng soey on Brîtîsh or Scottîsh government support, and Scottîsh im-makers wî îkey do so far înto the foreseeabe future. What’s more, many ims focused on Scottîsh characters and Scottîsh storîes have been made and contînue to be made în Scotand by peope who are not Scottîsh cîtîzens, and many ims whose storîes are set în Scotand, and whîch feature Scottîsh characters, are – and ong have been – imed outsîde of Scotand. Work în Scottîsh cînema studîes today encompasses the crîtîca examînatîon of a broad range of ims, încudîng ims (past and present) that are not made by Scots, and not made în Scotand, but that nevertheess reate storîes set în Scotand and feature Scottîsh characters. In thîs context, ‘Scottîsh cînema’ thereby încudes mutîpy dîverse and contestîng ways im-makers and im audîences îmagîne Scotand, and îmagîne Scottîshness. Thîs means, în turn, that ‘Scottîsh cînema’ încudes mutîpy dîverse and contestîng myths of Scotand and Scottîshness that dîsparate im-makers – and im audîences – ind compeîng and appeaîng. The îndependence debate provîdes an excîtîng opportunîty for Scots to re-îmagîne, and prospectîvey re-învent, what Scotand îs to mean and to be, încudîng by takîng înto account vîsîons of a future Scotand that move în far more radîcay înnovatîve and transformatîve dîrectîons than those promoted wîthîn ‘oficîa’ narratîves propounded by representatîves of the socîa and poîtîca estabîshment. Scottîsh ims and im-makers, as we as schoary înterpretatîon and dîscussîon of Scottîsh ims and im-makers, coectîvey maîntaîn the potentîa to contrîbute powerfuy toward re-îmagînîng and re-înventîng what Scotand îs and wî be about, încudîng how Scotand conceîves and represents îtsef, at a tîme în whîch such work of natîona re-îmagînatîon and re-înventîon has become îmmedîatey reevant, and even urgent, throughout Scotand.
8Scotand
Dîrectory of Word Cînema
As Fîrst Mînîster Aex Samond wrîtes în the ‘Preface’ toScotand’s Future: Your Guîde to an Independent Scotand, the ate-2013 book-ength pubîcatîon of the Scottîsh government’s ‘whîte paper’ on Scottîsh îndependence,
Scotand îs an ancîent natîon, renowned for the îngenuîty and creatîvîty of our peope, the breathtakîng beauty of our and and the brîîance of our schoars. Our natîona story has been shaped down the generatîons by vaues of compassîon, equaîty, an unrîvaed commîtment to the empowerment of educatîon, and passîon and curîosîty for înventîon that has heped to shape the word around us. Scots have been at the forefront of the great mora, poîtîca and economîc debates of our tîmes as humanîty has searched for progress în the modern age. It îs în that spîrît of progress that you wî be asked on 18 September 2014, ‘Shoud Scotand be an îndependent country’? The answer to that questîon wî determîne how we can shape our natîon for the future. The year ahead shoud be a natîona ceebratîon of who we are and what we coud be. The debate we are engaged în as a natîon îs about the future of a of us ucky enough to îve în thîs dîverse and vîbrant country. It îs a rare and precîous moment în the hîstory of Scotand – a once în a generatîon opportunîty to chart a better way. (The Scottîsh Government 2013: vîîî)
Athough Samond and the Scottîsh Natîona Party-ed Scottîsh government irmy support îndependence, the energy currenty focused upon crîtîcay înquîrîng înto Scotand’s past and present în the înterest of creatîvey re-îmagînîng and re-înventîng Scotand’s future wî contînue regardess of how thîs referendum vote turns out. What îs more, Scotand’s Futureargues în support of încreasîng productîon of broadcastîng content în Scotand, as we as în deveopîng more dîstîncty Scottîsh avenues for dîssemînatîng thîs content, and, even more împortanty, decares that ‘dîstînct from Westmînster’ the Scottîsh government recognîzes ‘the întrînsîc vaue of cuture and herîtage, and do not vaue them for theîr economîc beneit, substantîa though that îs’ and that cuture and herîtage are ‘fundamenta to our webeîng and quaîty of îfe’ (19). Whîe the Scottîsh government îkewîse ‘does not measure the worth of cuture and herîtage soey în [terms of] money – we vaue cuture and herîtage precîsey because they embody our heart and sou, and our essence’ (309) and the Scottîsh government knows ‘that pubîc fundîng of the arts îs a fundamenta good’ (313). Certaîny, many Scottîsh wrîters and artîsts are understandaby sceptîca of what these sentîments are îkey to resut în, în practîce, notîng that, asScotand’s Futureaso îndîcates, ‘cuture and herîtage are aready the responsîbîîty of the Scottîsh Parîament’ (309). Yet these kînds of statements, however vaguey posed and readîy eusîve, nevertheess provîde a potentîay usefu startîng poînt for contînuîng to press forward arguments on behaf of not ony maîntaînîng but aso strengthenîng pubîc învestment în, and support of, the arts, încudîng im-makîng and cînema cuture, în îne wîth a conceptîon of vaue that surpasses narrowy deined notîons of economîc proitabîîty. Dîrectory of Word Cînema: Scotandîs a contrîbutîon to thîs ongoîng dîscussîon and debate and, we hope aso, to thîs current process of re-îmagînatîon and re-înventîon. Thîs book represents a dîversîty of perspectîves on îssues subject to contestatîon în Scottîsh cînema and cutura studîes (no sînge overrîdîng consensus of thînkîng predomînates, and attentîve readers wî note we mutîpe areas where contrîbutors dîsagree).Dîrectory of Word Cînema: Scotandprovîdes an întroductory overvîew of major înes of schoary thînkîng, wrîtîng and takîng, past and present, about Scottîsh ims, Scottîsh im-makers and themes and îssues concernîng Scottîsh ims and im-makers – whîe aso offerîng a number of new takes, new poînts of emphasîs, new frames for înterpretatîon and evauatîon, new sets of references and new serîes of connectîons. Our aîm îs to provîde a vauabe resource for peope begînnîng to expore înterests în Scottîsh cînema, as we as
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