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Colin McArthur is former Head of the Distribution Division at the British Film Institute and former Visiting Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University and Queen Margaret University. He has written extensively on Hollywood cinema, British television and Scottish culture. His most recent book is Along the Great Divide (2020). Jonathan Murray is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The New Scottish Cinema (2015) and Discomfort and Joy (2011), a Contributing Writer for Cineaste magazine and co-Principal Editor of Journal of British Cinema and Television.
A major achievement of the new collection of essays assembled by the editor Jonathan Murray is that it brings together in one place a wide range of published work from longform monographs to short film reviews, much of it long unavailable or difficult to access.--Alex Law ""Media Education Journal"" Colin McArthur is a rare writer to be cherished. This collection of 36 essays written between 1966 and 2020 plus an 'Afterword' represents McArthur's large body of work through careful selections that cover his different interests and approaches. [...] Anyone interested in Scottish film culture should read this book.--Editor ""ITP Global Film Blog"" This book adds to our understanding of [McArthur's] persistent, intelligent probing and its impact on Scottish culture. Jonathan Murray is to be thanked for putting the collection together.--David Manderson ""The Bottle Imp"" Cinema, Culture, Scotland is an autobiography of ideas by a pioneering, deeply committed writer on film and the wider culture, from angry young man to internationally recognised authority; it is also a history of English-speaking Film Studies since the mid-1960s by one of the discipline's key contributors. Much more than a 'legacy' volume set in stone, it should be a continuing inspiration to new generations of writers, thinkers and practitioners who take film seriously. --Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, Former Rector of the Royal College of Art and Chair of Arts Council England; Award-winning Writer and Broadcaster Ranging from pioneering analyses of popular American cinema to ground-breaking studies of the representation of Scotland in visual and material culture, Colin McArthur's writings have always, from the 1960s to the present day, constituted major interventions in their fields. It is thus particularly welcome that some of the finest examples are now readily accessible, and in such a diligently edited collection. --Professor Julian Petley, Brunel University
