Tracking Loach presents a ground-breaking and unique contribution to the study of cinema. Archibald was granted unprecedented access to observe one of world cinemas 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.
This book draws on this knowledge to offer a first-hand account of the directors celebrated working methods, supplemented with insights gleaned from the British Film Institutes Loach archive, and analysis of his wider output and film-related political activity.
Archibald has been Tracking Loach for over three decades, as film viewer, film critic and film academic, and this inside perspective not only offers fresh insights into Loachs films and how they are made, but also highlights the benefits of production studies to the understanding of cinema more broadly.