Review: Tracking Loach by Prof. David Archibald (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)

This book offers a unique first-hand account of Ken Loach’s working methods

• Provides a detailed study of the making of The Angels’ Share
• Offers a wider analysis of Loach’s films and his film-related political activities
• Draws upon research from the British Film Institute's Loach Archive
• Demonstrates how a detailed knowledge of film making practices and methods can enhance film analysis and criticism

Tracking Loach presents a ground-breaking and unique contribution to the study of cinema. Archibald was granted unprecedented access to observe one of world cinema’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, Ken Loach, while he was making the 2012 feature The Angels Share, which received The Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

David Archibald is Professor of Political Cinemas at the University of Glasgow. His previous publications include The war that won’t die: The Spanish Civil War in Cinema (2012), and many essays on film and film culture. He is the Series Editor of the Edinburgh University Press Political Cinemas Series, sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Class and Culture and Media Practice and Education, and is a member of the Radical Film Network international steering committee. David is currently making films with Núria Araüna Baró under the banner ‘Ragged Cinema’, writing songs for and performing with The Tenementals, and is researcher-in-residence at The Revelator Wall of Death.

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