Jacob Leigh, The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art In The Service of the People

Abstract

Carla's Song: the rhetoric of the unplanned shot -- Up the Junction: addressing the audience -- Cathy Come Home: fictional journalism -- Poor Cow: the limitations of digression -- Kes: implying shared experiences -- The Big Flame: a heady fantasy of revolution -- The Rank and File: fusing the individual and the collective -- Days of Hope: a tendency towards personalisation -- The Gamekeeper: the documentary look -- Looks and Smiles: hanging about for people to bare their souls -- Talking about work: a response to the 1980s -- Raining Stones: embedding characters in contexts -- Ladybird Ladybird: a melodrama of protest -- Land and Freedom: seeing with your own eyes.