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David Martin-Jones
Scotland: Global Cinema, 09/2005Book Chapter
This chapter examines the Loch Ness monster movie, an incarnation of the monster genre completely ignored in academic discussions of Scotland and cinema. It begins with a brief examination of the history of Nessie, including the media coverage that accompanied the monster’s first reported sightings in the twentieth century, its relationship with tourism and the ways in which the early British Nessie movie The Secret of the Loch (1934) used the monster to examine the relationship between England and Scotland. This theme is pursued throughout the rest of the chapter, for the majority of which I focus on Loch Ness
