Neil Blain is Professor Emeritus of Communications at the University of Stirling. His publications include Media, Monarchy and Power (with Hugh O’Donnell), Sport, Media, Culture: Local and Global Dimensions and The Media in Scotland (co-edited with David Hutchison). David Hutchison has published in the fields of theatre, media policy and journalism. From 2010-2014 he was chair of Regional Screen Scotland. He is Honorary Professor of Media Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• Introduction FRAMING THE DISCUSSION1 Neil Blain and Kathryn Burnett: An unwon cause: the struggle to represent Scotland 2 John Corbett: Scots, English and Community languages in the media3 Philip Schlesinger: Communications policy THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT4 David Hutchison: The history of the press 5 David Bruce: The history of film and cinema6 Maggie Sweeney: Broadcasting: from birth to devolution and beyond SCREEN AND SOUND7 John R. Cook: Three ring circus: television drama and for Scotland8 Hugh O’Donnell: ‘Nae bevvying, nae skiving’: language and community in the Scottish soap opera9 Ian Mowatt: Broadcast comedy10 Sarah Neely: Contemporary Scottish cinema11 Ken Garner: Radio and popular music THEMES AND FUTURES 12 Jane Sillars and Myra Macdonald: Gender, spaces, changes: emergent identities in a Scotland in transition13 Anthea Irwin: Race and ethnicity in the media 14 Mike Cormack: Gaelic, the media and Scotland 15 Brian McNair: The Scottish media and politics16 Brian Wilson: A view from Westminster17 Michael Russell: A view from Holyrood 18 Richard Haynes and Raymond Boyle: Media sportSelect Bibliography Notes on Contributors

Neil Blain is Professor Emeritus of Communications at the University of Stirling. His publications include Media, Monarchy and Power (with Hugh O’Donnell), Sport, Media, Culture: Local and Global Dimensions and The Media in Scotland (co-edited with David Hutchison). David Hutchison has published in the fields of theatre, media policy and journalism. From 2010-2014 he was chair of Regional Screen Scotland. He is Honorary Professor of Media Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• Introduction FRAMING THE DISCUSSION1 Neil Blain and Kathryn Burnett: An unwon cause: the struggle to represent Scotland 2 John Corbett: Scots, English and Community languages in the media3 Philip Schlesinger: Communications policy THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT4 David Hutchison: The history of the press 5 David Bruce: The history of film and cinema6 Maggie Sweeney: Broadcasting: from birth to devolution and beyond SCREEN AND SOUND7 John R. Cook: Three ring circus: television drama and for Scotland8 Hugh O’Donnell: ‘Nae bevvying, nae skiving’: language and community in the Scottish soap opera9 Ian Mowatt: Broadcast comedy10 Sarah Neely: Contemporary Scottish cinema11 Ken Garner: Radio and popular music THEMES AND FUTURES 12 Jane Sillars and Myra Macdonald: Gender, spaces, changes: emergent identities in a Scotland in transition13 Anthea Irwin: Race and ethnicity in the media 14 Mike Cormack: Gaelic, the media and Scotland 15 Brian McNair: The Scottish media and politics16 Brian Wilson: A view from Westminster17 Michael Russell: A view from Holyrood 18 Richard Haynes and Raymond Boyle: Media sportSelect Bibliography Notes on Contributors

Neil Blain is Professor Emeritus of Communications at the University of Stirling. His publications include Media, Monarchy and Power (with Hugh O’Donnell), Sport, Media, Culture: Local and Global Dimensions and The Media in Scotland (co-edited with David Hutchison). David Hutchison has published in the fields of theatre, media policy and journalism. From 2010-2014 he was chair of Regional Screen Scotland. He is Honorary Professor of Media Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University.

• Introduction FRAMING THE DISCUSSION1 Neil Blain and Kathryn Burnett: An unwon cause: the struggle to represent Scotland 2 John Corbett: Scots, English and Community languages in the media3 Philip Schlesinger: Communications policy THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT4 David Hutchison: The history of the press 5 David Bruce: The history of film and cinema6 Maggie Sweeney: Broadcasting: from birth to devolution and beyond SCREEN AND SOUND7 John R. Cook: Three ring circus: television drama and for Scotland8 Hugh O’Donnell: ‘Nae bevvying, nae skiving’: language and community in the Scottish soap opera9 Ian Mowatt: Broadcast comedy10 Sarah Neely: Contemporary Scottish cinema11 Ken Garner: Radio and popular music THEMES AND FUTURES 12 Jane Sillars and Myra Macdonald: Gender, spaces, changes: emergent identities in a Scotland in transition13 Anthea Irwin: Race and ethnicity in the media 14 Mike Cormack: Gaelic, the media and Scotland 15 Brian McNair: The Scottish media and politics16 Brian Wilson: A view from Westminster17 Michael Russell: A view from Holyrood 18 Richard Haynes and Raymond Boyle: Media sportSelect Bibliography Notes on Contributors