Brigadoon, Braveheart, and the Scots : distortions of Scotland in Hollywood cinema /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2003.
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| Series: | Cinema and society series
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=108969 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.