Charlie...I have an interesting conundrum for you...Recently, my daughter and I saw Four Weddings and a Funeral...a supposedly British film...my daugher (age 13, very bright, very intuitive) said that it wasn't a British Film at all, that it was an American Film with British accents....and hardly like Enchanted April or, Howards End or Orlando for that matter(all of which she'd seen) I don't think Americans see much British film anymore...not like it used to be...and then American films suck everyone in like a black hole.....(My memory ls going with my age...but...there wa s Gregory's Girl...I loved that film!...Tight little island... Local Hero...." What happened to Bill _______(can't remember hsi name). And look what happened to Peter Wier and Fred Scheppsis? Sandy > > 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 > -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Sandy Dwiggins Internet: [log in to unmask] + + Building 82, Room 111 Phone: (301) 496-7406 + + Bethesda, Maryland 20892 Fax: (301) 480-8105 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------+