When Scotland Started to Speak (and Be Heard): UK and US Scottishness, 1934 and 1935

This paper researches representations and performances of Scottishness in UK US cinema from 1934 1935. Utilising archive material tandem with performance analysis this addresses questions verisimilitude these productions.The presents two very different Scotlands people. A Scotsman to be feared, savage pious afraid outsiders Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps is juxtaposed against the first truly modern screen Clair’s Ghost Goes West.The present adaptations J. M. Barrie’s works, What Every Woman Knows Little Minister. Two films led by female characters, productions put idea a ‘real’ Scotland at their core.The concludes surprising revelation regarding executions performed Scottishness.