Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots: Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema
(Part of the Cinema and Society Series)
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This provocative book follows MGM's Gene Kelly musical Brigadoon through the worlds of 1940s Broadway theatre and 1950s Hollywood and documents the contempt the film has elicited, particularly from the Scots intelligentsia. McArthur succumbs to Brigadoon's charm, but finds no such mitigating features in Mel Gibson's 1995 blockbuster Braveheart . Tracing Braveheart 's appropriation by political, touristic and sporting figures, he argues that, far from...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1860649270
ISBN13:9781860649271
Release Date:September 2003
Publisher:I. B. Tauris & Company
Length:228 Pages
Weight:1.12 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.7"
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