[ecrea] Becoming Scotland: Screen Cultures in a Small Nation (28-29 Aug) - conference

Conference registration is still open for *Becoming Scotland: Screen 
Cultures in a Small Nation* (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 28-29 
August 2014). For provisional schedule and registration details, see 
_http://www.qmu.ac.uk/whats-on/becoming-scotland.htm_. /Campus 
accommodation available – book now!/
Questions about Scotland and Scottish-ness seem especially urgent in the 
lead in to the Independence Referendum on 18 September 2014. Queen 
Margaret University’s *Becoming Scotland* conference will explore film 
and television production in Scotland across fiction and non-fiction 
genres, with an inclusive approach to medium. The conference will 
contextualise film and television production in Scotland within the 
political, industrial and cultural paradigms of the era, including a 
consideration of the transnational relationships involved in film and 
television production in a small nation, and the impact this has upon 
industry practices and the representation on screen of national and 
regional identities. The conference’s approach will be multiperspectival 
and will take advantage of Queen Margaret University’s geographical 
location near Edinburgh, combining academic research with practitioner 
participation, in order to enable a multi-faceted exploration of 
Scotland’s screen cultures.