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His film \"The Maggie\", the adventures of a decrepit River Clyde cargo boat, was released in 1953. Both films offer distinctive representations of Scotland and the Scots, a theme that Colin McArthur pursues in this lively guide to the two films. He explores the wider context of a Britain experiencing and emerging from post-war austerity, as well as the role of Ealing Studios, for which Mackendrick made both films. McArthur examines the tastes and perceptions of reviewers and audiences, both British and American, at the time of the films' release, as well as changed contemporary perspectives. 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Including 20 works now out of print, it identifies the central strands of scholarly interest and political engagement that have driven and defined the career of one of British film and Scottish cultural studies' founding figures and most influential voices. Presented chronologically, the essays make McArthur's achievements - his leading role in legitimising the study of mid-twentieth-century Hollywood cinema and popular American film genres; his leadership in establishing Scotland's cinematic representation as an important object of study within British film studies and modern Scottish cultural studies; and his imaginative interrogation of Scotland's distinctive role as a visual and material cultural signifier within a diverse range of post-18th-century international popular cultures - available to new generations of scholars. The volume also helps its reader to understand the historical emergence and evolution of Anglophone film studies and Scottish cultural studies during the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries. Colin McArthur is former Head of the Distribution Division at the British Film Institute and former Visiting Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University and Queen Margaret University. He has written extensively on Hollywood cinema, British television and Scottish culture. His most recent book is Along the Great Divide (2020). Jonathan Murray is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Edinburgh. 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