[ecrea] CFP: New Developments in Scottish Cinema

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 (Simon.brown /at/ kingston.ac.uk).

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).

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