Childhood in Kes and Into the West: Ordinary and imaginary living in a mining community and a Traveller community
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2024
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Cécile Bazin, « Childhood in Kes and Into the West: Ordinary and imaginary living in a mining community and a Traveller community », Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre
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Our intention here is to look at two films, Kes by Ken Loach (1969) and Into the West by Mike Newell (1992), both featuring children as their main characters. The association is not grounded on a criterion of shared “period” or “territory.” What is focused upon and compared here is how the poverty affecting the ordinary lives of children, whether in the 1960s or the 1990s, in areas within the British Isles that are both poor and, in various ways, neglected or peripheral, is transcended through...
