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Call for Papers

New Developments in Scottish Cinema

A special Issue of the International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen

In August 2013 Iain Smith, Chair of the British Film Commission, declared
in an interview in Screen that ‘I think there’s a new dawn in Scotland…at
the highest levels there has been a political awakening, if you like, to
the potential of film and TV in the world’. Smith was responding to a
visible upsurge in film production in Scotland. In addition to attracting
such high profile films as World War Z, Cloud Atlas and Skyfall using
Scotland as locations, 2012-13 has seen a number of films specifically set
in Scotland and dealing, to a lesser or greater extent, with Scottish
issues. Ken Loach and Paul Laverty’s The Angel’s Share was followed by
Sunshine on Leith and Filth, the latter films deriving their narratives
from Scottish sons The Proclaimers and Irvine Welsh respectively and
showing very different yet nevertheless crowd-pleasing images of Edinburgh.
By contrast For Those in Peril, from debut feature writer and director Paul
Wright, presented a sombre tale of loss against the backdrop of the
Aberdeenshire coastline. Alongside Jonathan Glazer’s upcoming Under the
Skin, and The Railway Man, based on the autobiography of Eric Lomax and
starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, these films offer clear signs that
the last 18 months have been a period of sustained success for the Scottish
film industry.

In 2009 Jonathan Murray, Fidelma Farley and Rod Stoneman’s book Scottish
Cinema Now offered a new agenda for the study of this distinct national
cinema. In order to examine changes and progress in the years since this
publication, the International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen is
publishing a special issue exploring the contemporary state of Scottish
cinema, and its possible futures. For this the editors are seeking
proposals of 300-500 words for articles of up to 6000 words. The deadline
for submission of the proposal is 19 November 2013. Decisions will be made
by 2 December. The deadline for submission of the articles will be 31 March
2014 for a July 2014 publication. Revisions to the pieces will be expected
by the end of April in readiness for peer review.

Proposals are welcomed on any aspect of Scottish Cinema since 2009
including but not limited to:

Companies, politics, Funding, Production, Exhibition, audiences, stars,
producers, directors, themes, genre, co-productions, National vs Global,
short films, animation.

Proposals and a short biography of 50-70 words should be sent via email by
the deadline to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]
>.

Simon Brown is Director of Studies for Film, Television and Media and
Cultural Studies at Kingston University.  He is also Screen Editor for the
International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen. His recent
publications include ‘Anywhere But Scotland: Transnationalism and New
Scottish Cinema’ (International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen Vol
4 No 1, 2012) and he was co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of
Science Fiction Film and Television on The X-Files (Vol 6 no 2, 2013).



Dr. Stacey Abbott
Reader in Film and Television Studies
Roehampton University | London | SW15 5SL
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> |
www.roehampton.ac.uk<http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/>

Co-author, with Lorna Jowett, of TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of
the Small Screen (I.B. Tauris 2013)
Author of Angel: TV Milestone (Wayne State University Press, 2009)
Author of Celluloid Vampires (University of Texas Press, 2007)
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