Life After Kes: The Making of the British Film Classic, the People, the Story and Its Legacy - Hardcover

Simon W. Golding

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954879333 ISBN 13: 9780954879334

Publisher: GET Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Life After Kes examines the history and legacy of the 1969 award-winning British film, Kes, about a boy's (Billy Casper) relationship with a kestrel. This fascinating book not only pays homage to the vision and extraordinary talent involved both in front and behind the camera but also looks at subsequent changes in the educational system, posing some important questions. Are we any better off today? Have schools and teaching staff moved forward over the last few decades? Have successive government's learnt anything from the mistakes of the past? Life After Kes explores the lives of the cast and production team since the making of the film including David (Dai) Bradley who played the lead role and examines why the legacy of Billy Casper and the national perception of Kes cast a shadow over South Yorkshire. Does Casper's ghost still haunt this ex-mining community and is director Ken Loach's gritty northern drama as relevant today as it was then? This book is a must-have for all film fans, anyone who enjoyed Kes and all those with an interest in British social history.

About this edition

• Publisher: GET Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0954879333
• ISBN 13: 9780954879334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288