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The cinema of Ken Loach : art in the service of the people / Jacob Leigh.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.L6 L45 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leigh, Jacob.
- Series:
- Directors' cuts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loach, Ken, 1936---Criticism and interpretation.
- Loach, Ken.
- Loach, Ken, 1936-.
- Politics in motion pictures.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People examines the linking of art and politics that distinguishes the work of this leading British film director. Loach's films manifest recurrent themes over a long period of working with various collaborators, yet his handling of those themes has changed throughout his career. This book examines those changes as a way of reaching an understanding of Loach's style and meaning. It evaluates how Loach incorporates his political beliefs and those of his writers into his work and augments this thematic interpretation with contextual information gleaned from original archive research and new interviews.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Clear Notes in the Concert 5
- Carla's Song: the rhetoric of the unplanned shot 5
- Chapter 2 What to do with a Camera 23
- Up the Junction: addressing the audience 26
- Cathy Come Home: fictional journalism 39
- Poor Cow: the limitations of digression 47
- Chapter 3 Sympathetic Observation 59
- Kes: implying shared experiences 61
- Chapter 4 The Experience of History 91
- The Big Flame: a heady fantasy of revolution 92
- The Rank and File: fusing the individual and the collective 99
- Days of Hope: a tendency towards personalisation 101
- Chapter 5 Significance and Objectivity 115
- The Gamekeeper: the documentary look 120
- Looks and Smiles: hanging about for people to bare their souls 130
- Talking about work: a response to the 1980s 133
- Chapter 6 Cutting to the Core of What's Happening 141
- Raining Stones: embedding characters in contexts 142
- Ladybird Ladybird: a melodrama of protest 150
- Land and Freedom: seeing with your own eyes 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207), filmography and index.
- ISBN:
- 1903364310
- 1903364329
- OCLC:
- 50016907
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