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OverviewJohn Hill's definitive study looks at the career and work of British director Ken Loach. From his early television work (Cathy Come Home) through to landmark films (Kes) and examinations of British society (Looking For Eric) this landmark study reveals Loach as one of the great European directors. Full Product DetailsAuthor: NA NAPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: BFI Publishing Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.413kg ISBN: 9781844572038ISBN 10: 184457203 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 03 June 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.- Introduction.- Towards 'a new drama for television': Diary of a Young Man and The End of Arthur's Marriage.- 'Urgently contemporary and socially relevant': From Tap on the Shoulder to Up the Junction.- Blurring 'the distinction between fact and fiction': Cathy Come Home, In Two Minds and The Golden Vision.- 'The play of political advocacy': The Big Flame and The Rank and File.- From Television into Film: Poor Cow, Kes and Family Life.- 'This is our history': Days of Hope.- 'The UK's pre-eminent arthouse director': from television censorship to 'art cinema'.- 'It's a Free World': Social Change and Class from Riff-Raff to Looking For Eric.- What Might Have Been: Land and Freedom and The Wind that Shakes the Barley.- Select Bibliography.- Filmography.- Index.Reviews'Not only offers a detailed critical study of virtually Loach's entire output from the now-lost BBC play Catherine (1964) to his most recent feature Route Irish (2010), but also explores the internal and external politics governing their production and reception, in often fascinating detail... [This is] clearly the most important addition to Loach scholarship since Graham Fuller's book-length 1998 interview Loach on Loach.' - Michael Brooke, Sight & Sound Author InformationJOHN HILL is Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Sex, Class and Realism: British Cinema 1956–63 (1986), British Cinema in the 1980s (1999) and Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics (2006), the co-author of Cinema and Ireland (1987) and the co-editor of various collections, including The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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