Kenneth Loach's "Riff Raff": between the British documentary tradition and the working class cinema

• José Díaz-Cuesta Galián ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de La Rioja

     Universidad de La Rioja

     Logroño, España

     
• Localización: Odisea: Revista de estudios ingleses, ISSN 1578-3820, Nº 1, 2001, págs. 147-157
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Riff-Raff (1991) is analysed as a functional hinge between the British documentarymovement of the twenties, the free cinema of the fifties and the present current ofsocial films such as Trainspotting (1996), Brassed off (1996) or The Full Monty(1997). Kenneth Loach seems to have incorporated the theoretical doctrine of theBritish documentary tradition in most of his films, especially in Riff-Raff, as we cansee in his way of dealing with scripts and actors. Simultaneously he has introducedwhat we may call the humour factor, widely used in the working-class films of the1990s.