Books written by Colin McArthur

  • The Big Heat
    The Big Heat

    Yet by the time the film was reissued in Britain in 1988 it had achieved undisputed classic status. How had this transformation come about? Colin McArthur takes 'The Big Heat 'as a case study in film criticism.

  • The Big Heat
    The Big Heat

    Chapter 2 deals with Columbia with Columbia Pictures ' institutional involvement with The Big Heat from its acquisition as a Saturday Evening Post serial to its marketing as finished film . This chapter is very much concerned with the ...

  • The Big Heat
    The Big Heat

    The Big Heat first appeared in 1953, towards the end of the film noir cycle that had begun in the early '40s. It was greeted in the United States and...

  • Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots: Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema
    Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots: Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema

    This provocative book discusses the films' representations of Scotland and the Scots, looking at that cluster of images and stories whereby Scotland is (mis)recognized and yet often comes to be "known".

  • Underworld U.S.A.

    Underworld U.S.A.