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Vivid Stories: Oral Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene (2024)
Book Chapter
Medbøe, H., Maclean, D., & Raine, S. (2024). Vivid Stories: Oral Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene. In Á. Havas, B. Johnson, & D. Horn (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003212638-49

This chapter draws on the production and content of the Scottish Jazz Archive (SJA) oral histories collection alongside interviews with Scottish jazz musicians. Specifically, we consider how the Scottish jazz community is co-creating its own diaspori... Read More about Vivid Stories: Oral Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene.

Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Maclean, D. (2024). Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(4), 540-557. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494231159342

If Gaelic has been symbolically appropriated to represent Scotland, then it follows that we need to look more closely at the part played by documentary film both of and from the Scottish Hebrides, in furthering the dissemination of what is an idealis... Read More about Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective.

Islay Jazz Festival (2020)
Journal Article
Medboe, H., & Maclean, D. (2020). Islay Jazz Festival. Jazz Research Journal, 12(2), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.40304

This article considers the ecologies and stakeholder interests that overlap in the staging of an annual jazz festival on a small Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides. Through interviews with festival promoters, performers and audience members, along... Read More about Islay Jazz Festival.

Commission, Position and Production: Intent and Intervention in Minority Language Programmes (2019)
Book Chapter
Maclean, D. (2019). Commission, Position and Production: Intent and Intervention in Minority Language Programmes. In C. Batty, M. Berry, K. Dooley, B. Frankham, & S. Kerrigan (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production (19-31). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21744-0_2

This chapter uses documentaries to examine the processes, thinking and practices that a filmmaker undergoes, from the initial idea through to production. It will consider how the documentary filmmaker’s ideas and ‘intent’ is mediated and changed by c... Read More about Commission, Position and Production: Intent and Intervention in Minority Language Programmes.

Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw (2018)
Journal Article
Maclean, D. (2018). Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw. International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen, 11(1), 6-28

This article considers the role and place of Gaelic television output looking at how Gaelic content was delivered prior to the creation of BBC Alba in 2008 and up to the present day. It compares the contradictory way in which it is has been viewed ex... Read More about Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw.

Bruadar a' Bhais/A Dream of Death (2016)
Digital Artefact
Maclean, D. (2016). Bruadar a' Bhais/A Dream of Death. [BBC iPlayer video]

Drama documentary telling the story of Hugh Macleod, a teacher who was convicted of the murder of a travelling pedlar in a trial where 'dream testimony' was admitted by the Crown.

Position, commission and production: a self-reflexive investigation into the generation of ethnographic knowledge through documentary production for BBC Alba (2014)
Thesis
MacLean, D. Position, commission and production: a self-reflexive investigation into the generation of ethnographic knowledge through documentary production for BBC Alba. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8850

This thesis takes as its object of study issues emerging from the synthesis of documentary practice and theoretical discourse. Its context is formed by the production of four published works commissioned and broadcast by the BBC in 2011/2012. These... Read More about Position, commission and production: a self-reflexive investigation into the generation of ethnographic knowledge through documentary production for BBC Alba.

Rèiteach (Betrothal) (2011)
Digital Artefact
Maclean, D. (2011). Rèiteach (Betrothal). [BBC iPlayer video]

Dà bhanais, còir is 50 bliadhna eatorra. Tha seanmhair a' faicinn deilbh na bainnse aice, 'son a' cheud uair riamh.

Two island weddings, 50 years apart. A grandmother sees her wedding film for the very first time.

Memory and Identity: Filmmakers and ‘natives’ collusion towards constructed identity
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2017, January). Memory and Identity: Filmmakers and ‘natives’ collusion towards constructed identity. Paper presented at Power and Identity: A cross disciplinary conference, University of Tokyo, Japan

This paper examines the interplay between filmmakers and Scottish Highland communities in constructing an idealised identity that frames subjects within their landscape. It will also consider the appropriation of oral memories as visual texts, and t... Read More about Memory and Identity: Filmmakers and ‘natives’ collusion towards constructed identity.

Oral History Methodologies
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2018, May). Oral History Methodologies. Paper presented at 12th International Jazz Research Conference, Graz, Austria

Commissioned Programmes as Ethnography
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2015, May). Commissioned Programmes as Ethnography. Paper presented at Visual Methods and Ethnography, Edinburgh Napier University

This paper takes as its object of study issues emerging from the synthesis of documentary practice and theoretical discourse. Its context is formed by the production of four published works commissioned and broadcast by the BBC in 2011/2012. These c... Read More about Commissioned Programmes as Ethnography.