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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      19 June 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511613111
      9780521480437
      9780521485180
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613111
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 306 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 304 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Film Classics
      Subjects:
      Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Western Art
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    Series:
    Cambridge Film Classics
    Subjects:
    Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Western Art
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    The Films of Mike Leigh is the first critical study of one of the most important and eccentric directors of British independent filmmaking. Although active since 1971, Leigh has only come to the attention of an international audience in the 1990s through films such as Secrets and Lies and Career Girls. Like Robert Altman and John Cassevetes, Leigh works improvisationally, beginning with a small group of actors around whom he builds his films during months of private rehearsal. The script is written during this process. Ray Carney examines Leigh's working method and films in the intellectual and social contexts in which they were created. He argues that Leigh cannot be simply considered within the British realist tradition of Osborne and Loach. All of Leigh's major box office successes, including Naked, Life is Sweet and High Hopes, are analyzed, interpreted, and shown to be among the finest examples of cinema.

    Reviews

    ‘… takes genuine pleasure in the exuberance, wit and intelligence of Leigh’s cinema.’

    Paul Howson Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

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