I, Daniel Blake (Original title)I Daniel Blake (Help search title)
Dates: 2016 (Copyright), 21 October 2016 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, France, BelgiumDirector: Ken Loach
Synopsis: Following a heart attack, 59-year-old Newcastle joiner Daniel Blake is advised by doctors and physiotherapists not to return to work but in order to receive benefits Daniel has to navigate his way through Britain’s complex welfare bureaucracy. While visiting the job centre, he meets Katie, a young single mother who has just been relocated to Newcastle with her two children from a London homeless shelter. Together they form a mutually beneficial alliance in an attempt to avoid poverty and homelessness.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Welfare, Benefits, Unemployment, Poverty, Single mothers, Homelessness
Releases
Date: 21 October 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 100 mins 19 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: E1 Films
Date: November 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 100 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Title: Viewing I, Daniel Blake in the English regions: towards an understanding of realism through audience interpretationAuthor: FORREST, David Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Describes research using 'film elicitation' techniques with focus groups in four English regions to explore audience responses to a clip from Ken Loach's film 'I, Daniel Blake' (2016), which deals with the protagonist's attempts to negotiate the British welfare benefits system. Explores the interpretative resources which particpants employed in their engagement with the film, including personal circumstances, emotions and political views, and looks at their understanding of the nature of realism.
In: Journal of British cinema and television v15 n4 2018 Pages: 553-570
Title: ordinary spectacle: critical responses to fantasy and whimsy in Looking for Eric and The Angels' ShareAuthor: Rickards, CarolynArticle type: BookLanguage: English
Description: This article explores critical responses to fantasy and whimsy in Ken Loach’s films ‘Looking for Eric’ (2009) and ‘The Angel’s Share’ (2012). Loach’s films are usually received and critiqued as realist pieces, and this study challenges those preconceived notions.
Author: Sticchi, Francesco Pages: viii, 261 pages
Title: Nationalism in contemporary Western European cinema
Author: HARVEY, James Pages: xiii, 259 pages
Dates: 2016 (Copyright), 21 October 2016 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, France, BelgiumDirector: Ken Loach
Synopsis: Following a heart attack, 59-year-old Newcastle joiner Daniel Blake is advised by doctors and physiotherapists not to return to work but in order to receive benefits Daniel has to navigate his way through Britain’s complex welfare bureaucracy. While visiting the job centre, he meets Katie, a young single mother who has just been relocated to Newcastle with her two children from a London homeless shelter. Together they form a mutually beneficial alliance in an attempt to avoid poverty and homelessness.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Welfare, Benefits, Unemployment, Poverty, Single mothers, Homelessness
Releases
Date: 21 October 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 100 mins 19 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: E1 Films
Date: November 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 100 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
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In: Journal of British cinema and television v18 n3 2021 Pages: 259-279Title: Viewing I, Daniel Blake in the English regions: towards an understanding of realism through audience interpretationAuthor: FORREST, David Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Describes research using 'film elicitation' techniques with focus groups in four English regions to explore audience responses to a clip from Ken Loach's film 'I, Daniel Blake' (2016), which deals with the protagonist's attempts to negotiate the British welfare benefits system. Explores the interpretative resources which particpants employed in their engagement with the film, including personal circumstances, emotions and political views, and looks at their understanding of the nature of realism.
In: Journal of British cinema and television v15 n4 2018 Pages: 553-570
Title: ordinary spectacle: critical responses to fantasy and whimsy in Looking for Eric and The Angels' ShareAuthor: Rickards, CarolynArticle type: BookLanguage: English
Description: This article explores critical responses to fantasy and whimsy in Ken Loach’s films ‘Looking for Eric’ (2009) and ‘The Angel’s Share’ (2012). Loach’s films are usually received and critiqued as realist pieces, and this study challenges those preconceived notions.
Books held in BFI Reuben Library
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Title: Mapping precarity in contemporary cinema and television: chronotopes of anxiety, depression, expulsion/extinctionAuthor: Sticchi, Francesco Pages: viii, 261 pages
Title: Nationalism in contemporary Western European cinema
Author: HARVEY, James Pages: xiii, 259 pages