ABSTRACT
In Europe the film's seen as being this great emotional story about loss and how people deal with loss; and in Britain it's seen as being an attack on government. This chapter discusses a series of dialogues between John Tulloch (JT), an academic who has written about Ken Loach in his book Television Drama, and Rona Munro (RM), a screenwriter and playwright, who scripted Ken Loach's award-winning film Ladybird, Ladybird. JT and RM also share another kind of fandom; of television science fiction. While JT published an ethnographic academic study of Doctor Who, RM wrote the series' final British episode 'Survival'. They both share an admiration for Loach's films and for his politics. It also examines, via a case study of Ken Loach, to approach the issue of what it means for academics and film writers to write in a book about writing and cinema.
