David Archibald is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies 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 Nuria Arauna Baro under the banner 'Ragged Cinema', writing songs for and performing with The Tenementals, and is researcher-in-residence at The Revelator Wall of Death.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Politics on screen 2. Form 3. Team Loach 4. Performance 5. Words: between script and screen 6. Politics beyond the screen Epilogue Revolutionary Respair Appendices Bibliography Filmography Index

David Archibald’s book, Tracking Loach, is an academic celebration of Ken Loach’s 60 year career in socialist filmmaking and political activism. There is so much to discover and learn from its unique, rigorous and genuinely heartfelt exploration of one of the maestros of modern British cinema and modern British politics, Ken Loach. It is highly recommended.