Agent of Challenge and Defiance

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Agent of Challenge and Defiance The Films of Ken Loach

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George McKnight

Book Code: GM0507

ISBN: 0-313-30507-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30507-8

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240 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 5/30/1997

List Price: $119.95

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture

Series Number: 64

Description: For more than 30 years, Ken Loach's films have examined the social, political, economic, and psychological costs of living in Great Britain. These invariably controversial film and television works--Cathy Come Home, Kes, Hidden Agenda, Riff-Raff, and Land and Freedom, among others--represent a continuing commitment to using film for political purposes. In this first English-language book on Loach, McKnight brings together seven original critical essays on major aspects of Loach's work, an interview with the director, as well as comprehensive reference material. The essays 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, and the format and stylistic questions raised by his particular approach to filmmaking. An important collection for all students and researchers of contemporary film.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction by George McKnight
Ken Loach: Histories and Contexts by Stuart Laing
Factual Fictions and Fictional Fallacies: Ken Loach's Documentary Dramas by Julian Petley
Naturalism, Narration, and Critical Perspective: Ken Loach and the Experimental Method by Deborah Knight
Ken Loach's Domestic Morality Tales by George McKnight
Ken Loach and Questions of Censorship by Julian Petley
Finding a Form: Politics and Aesthetics in Fatherland, Hidden Agenda and Riff-Raff by John Hill
Saturn's Feast, Loach's Spain: Land and Freedom as Filmed History by Patrick MacFadden
Interview with Ken Loach by John Hill
Ken Loach: Filmography, compiled by George McKnight
Index
Notes on Contributors

LC Card Number: 97-5840

LCC Class: PN1998

Dewey Class: 791


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