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"The Heads and Tails of the Kingdom": Mrs. Brown and Devolutionary Scotland
No full textThis paper takes as its subject the 1997 film Mrs. Brown, an indigenously produced Scottish film that was nominated for several major awards and found audiences around the world. Despite this popular success and critical acclaim, the film has yet to find an adequate place in histories of Scottish cinema. The paper argues that the film mobilizes the generic practices of the so-called heritage film to construct a national allegory about Scotland and its relationship to the United Kingdom. This reading of the film is then situated against the film\u27s historical backdrop which saw the passage of the second devolution referendum in Scotland, a measure that would lead to the nation\u27s political devolution from the United Kingdom. The paper then concludes by arguing that such an understanding of its relationship to these larger generic and historical contexts means that Mrs. Brown is indeed a very important Scottish film that deserves greater consideration within the emerging canon of Scottish cinema
“Weaklynges” Sucking at England: Reassessing the Scottish Plantation of Ulster
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Jones, S.R.H. Doing Well and Doing Good: Ross & Glendining, Scottish Enterprise in New Zealand
No full textSharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson, eds., James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author
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Sir James Fergusson, The Personal Observations of a Man of Intelligence: Notes of a Tour in North America in 1861. Ben Wynne, ed.
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