Index on Censorship: The Subversive Eye

by Ken Loach, Jif Menzel, John Sayies

Issue 167 (Volume 24 No. 6 November December 1995 6/1995) of Index on Censorship. This issue focuses on 100 years of film censorship. With articles by an array of notables including John Waters, Ismail Merchant, Roman Polanski, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Milos Forman, John Sayles, Ken Loach, Arthur C. Clarke, and Constantin Costa-Gavras. 192 pages.

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1995

About the author

Kenneth Charles Loach is a British film director and screenwriter. His socially critical directing style and socialism are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), and labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001).

Loach's film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh-greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers to win the award twice. Loach also holds the record for most films in the main competition at Cannes, with fifteen films.