| Description |
vi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cinema voices |
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Contributions to the study of popular culture ; no. 64 |
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Cinema voices.
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Contributions to the study of popular culture ; no. 64
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| Contents |
Introduction / George McKnight -- Ken Loach: histories and contexts / Stuart Laing -- Factual fictions and fictional fallacies: Ken Loach's documentary dramas / Julian Petley -- Naturalism, narration and critical perspective: Ken Loach and the experimental method / Deborah Knight -- Ken Loach's domestic morality tales / George McKnight -- Ken Loach and questions of censorship / Julian Petley -- Finding a form: politics and aesthetics in Fatherland, Hidden Agenda and Riff-Raff / John Hill -- Saturn's feast, Loach's Spain: Land and Freedom as filmed history / Patrick MacFadden -- Interview with Ken Loach / John Hill -- Ken Loach: filmography / Edited by George McKnight -- Ken Loach: selected bibliography / Edited by Matthew Stevens and George McKnight |
| Summary |
This first English-language book on Loach brings together seven original essays on major aspects of his work, an interview with the director, as well as comprehensive and unique reference material. The contributions examine Loach's ongoing concerns with social and political issues in Britain, questions of censorship, the way in which he develops film narratives around public issues, his domestic morality tales, and the formal and aesthetic questions raised by his particular approach to filmmaking |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-224) and index |
| Subject |
Loach, Ken, 1936- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Motion picture producers and directors.
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Motion picture producers and directors.
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| Author |
McKnight, George.
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| LC no. |
97005840 |
| ISBN |
0275960366 |
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0313305072 (Greenwood Press) |
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0948911948 (Flick) |
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0948911999 (Flick : pbk.) |
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