Jonathan Murray lectures in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art. He received his PhD in Film and Television Studies and Scottish History from the University of Glasgow and has published widely on various aspects of Scottish cinema past and present.

• Contents: Bill Forsyth – History of Scottish cinema – British cinema studies – Contemporary Scottish culture – Modern European cinema.

«The remarkable œuvre of Scotland’s most significant writer/director has had to wait a long time for the kind of serious critical engagement that it clearly deserves. [...] Painstakingly researched and thoughtfully written, ‘Discomfort and Joy’ is indispensable for anyone interested in Scottish or British cinema of the last thirty years.» (Professor Duncan Petrie, University of York)«Murray re-enchants us about this master filmmaker. He shows why Forsyth’s movies matter, and how they matter [...] one of the best books ever written about Scottish film.» (Mark Cousins, filmmaker)«Murray has produced an impressively thorough guide to Forsyth’s films (backed up by an exhaustive fifteen page Bibliography).» (Douglas Allen, Media Education Journal 56, 2014)