Multicultural Glasgow: imagining Scotland as a space of cultural intersection in Scots-Asian films of the 2000s

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dc.contributor.authorTorricelli, Emily
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-08T11:21:13Z
dc.date.available2018-05-08T11:21:13Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIn films, even contemporary ones posing alternatives to the mythic representations of Scotland, Scottish identity is often constructed as homogeneous and white. Though a small number of films have been made addressing Scotland’s white minority groups, it is not until the 2000s that filmmakers such as Ken Loach and Pratibha Parmar began to explore non-white Scottish identities. This article explores the ways the former’s Ae Fond Kiss… (2004) and the latter’s Nina’s Heavenly Delights (2006) construct hybrid, plural Scottish identities by first considering the way the two films construct these identities, and then by considering the how the identities constructed were received by film critics. Ae Fond Kiss… suggests that racial and ethnic minorities understand “Scottishness” in varied ways that are often influenced by gender, whereas, for Nina’s Heavenly Delights, race, gender, and sexuality are some of the many identities that are united in the Scottish nation. In support of the plural and hybrid Scotlands these two films construct, film critics, despite the complications of genre, strongly label both as Scottish films, which suggests they understand Scotland as a diverse or hybrid place or culture.en
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dc.identifier.citationTorricelli, E. (2017) 'Multicultural Glasgow: imagining Scotland as a space of cultural intersection in Scots-Asian films of the 2000s ', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 13, pp. 90-104. doi: 10.33178/alpha.13.05en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/alpha.13.05
dc.identifier.endpage104
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued13
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage90
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/6030
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Cork
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue13/13_5Article_Torricelli.pdf
dc.rights© 2017, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMythic representationsen
dc.subjectScottish identityen
dc.subjectEthnic minoritiesen
dc.subjectScottish filmen
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectKen Loachen
dc.subjectAe Fond Kiss…en
dc.subjectPratibha Parmaren
dc.subjectNina’s Heavenly Delightsen
dc.subjectNon-white Scottish identitiesen
dc.subjectScottishnessen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectRaceen
dc.subjectSexualityen
dc.subjectPluralen
dc.subjectHybriden
dc.subjectScotlanden
dc.titleMulticultural Glasgow: imagining Scotland as a space of cultural intersection in Scots-Asian films of the 2000sen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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