Your request for info about foreign films and films made in Scotland was itself quite strange. I think you should reconsider the term very carefully and think about how American cinema constitutes itself as normative. But a film which might interest you: Nikita (Besson, France 1990) strong female lead with a GUN and, of course, remade for the American market. In Britain we are so under the sway of American culture that British films themselves often feel foreign, that is unusual and unrepresentative: the recent clutch of heritage films seems made to confirm stereotypes of Britain as much as anything else. But to accuse cinema of misrepresentation would be naive, it rarely attempts to represent anything for fear of offending somebody. In terms of national cinema and how it might be defined, and thereby how you might analyse foreign cinema and notions of it. Andrew Higson wrote in Screen 1988, no.3 I think on the concept of a national cinema with specific reference to Britain. Charlie Clark (student) University of Glasgow Department of Film and Television Florentine House Glasgow tel +44.(0)41.946.18.16