Discomfort and Joy The Cinema of Bill Forsyth

«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)