Mrs Brown’s Mourning and Mr King’s Madness:

McKechnie, Kara

doi:10.2307/j.ctt183q53x.11

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Mrs. Brown does not take its historical responsibility lightly; but rather than merely reproducing, it interprets." 34 Indeed much of the journalistic coverage of the film, both in the UK and abroad, included some explication of the gap in the historical accounts of Brown and Victoria's relationship, which the film uses as its point of departure. 35 Because not many viewers would have been aware of the John Brown controversy, much less of its particular details, the film-makers would not have faced the sort of pedantic nit-picking in the name of "accuracy" that usually accompanies the reception of historical biopics.…”

Section: Mrs Brown and Devolution: Unionist Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

"The Heads and Tails of the Kingdom": Mrs. Brown and Devolutionary Scotland

Meir

2010

IRSS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper takes as its subject the 1997 film Mrs. Brown, an indigenously produced Scottish film that was nominated for several major awards and found audiences around the world. Despite this popular success and critical acclaim, the film has yet to find an adequate place in histories of Scottish cinema. The paper argues that the film mobilizes the generic practices of the so-called heritage film to construct a national allegory about Scotland and its relationship to the United Kingdom. This reading of the film is then situated against the film's historical backdrop which saw the passage of the second devolution referendum in Scotland, a measure that would lead to the nation's political devolution from the United Kingdom. The paper then concludes by arguing that such an understanding of its relationship to these larger generic and historical contexts means that Mrs. Brown is indeed a very important Scottish film that deserves greater consideration within the emerging canon of Scottish cinema.

show abstract

Section: Mrs Brown and Devolution: Unionist Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%