TY - BOOK AU - Blain,Neil AU - Blain,Neil AU - Boyle,Raymond AU - Bruce,David AU - Burnett,Kathryn AU - Cook,John R. AU - Corbett,John AU - Cormack,Mike AU - Garner,Ken AU - Haynes,Richard AU - Hutchison,David AU - Irwin,Anthea AU - Macdonald,Myra AU - McNair,Brian AU - Mowatt,Ian AU - Neely,Sarah AU - O’Donnell,Hugh AU - Russell,Michael AU - Schlesinger,Philip AU - Sillars,Jane AU - Sweeney,Maggie AU - Wilson,Brian TI - The Media in Scotland SN - 9780748627998 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Mass media KW - Scotland KW - Film, Media & Cultural Studies KW - PERFORMING ARTS / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; FRAMING THE DISCUSSION --; 1 A Cause Still Unwon: The Struggle to Represent Scotland --; 2 Scots, English and Community Languages in the Scottish Media --; 3 Communications Policy --; THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT --; 4 The History of the Press --; 5 The History of Film and Cinema --; 6 Broadcasting: From Birth to Devolution . . . and Beyond --; SCREEN AND SOUND --; 7 Three Ring Circus: Television Drama about, by and for Scotland --; 8 ‘Nae Bevvying, Nae Skiving’: Language and Community in the Scottish Soap Opera --; 9 Broadcast Comedy --; 10 Contemporary Scottish Cinema --; 11 Radio and Popular Music --; THEMES AND FUTURES --; 12 Gender, Spaces, Changes: Emergent Identities in a Scotland in Transition --; 13 Race and Ethnicity in the Media --; 14 Gaelic, the Media and Scotland --; 15 The Scottish Media and Politics --; 16 A View from Westminster --; 17 A View from Holyrood --; 18 Media Sport --; Select Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748628001');This book brings together academics, writers and politicians to explore the range and nature of the media in Scotland. The book includes chapters on the separate histories of the press, broadcasting and cinema, on the representation and construction of Scotland, the contemporary communications environment, and the languages used in the media. Other chapters consider television drama, soap opera, broadcast comedy, gender, the media and politics, race and ethnicity, gender, popular music, sport and new technology, the place of Gaelic, and current issues in screen fiction. Among the contributors are David Bruce, Myra Macdonald, Brian McNair, Hugh O'Donnell, Mike Russell, Philip Schlesinger and Brian Wilson.Key FeaturesThe first comprehensive picture of the media in ScotlandRaises a number of important questions about how Scotland presents itself at home and abroadAnalyzes questions of politics, economics and governance." UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748631827?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748631827 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748631827/original ER -