The Films of Mike Leigh
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- Authors:
- Ray Carney, Boston University
- Leonard Quart, College of Staten Island
- Date Published: June 2000
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521485180
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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. The authors examine Leigh's working method and films in the intellectual and social contexts in which they were created. All of Leigh's major box office successes are analyzed, interpreted, and shown to be among the finest examples of cinema.
Read more- This was the first critical study of Mike Leigh
- Leigh is a filmmaker who generates much interest
- The book offers philosophical consideration of the nature of art film
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"...no other study to date sheds such revealing light on Leigh's background, his influences, his emotional groundings and, of course, his unique cinematic sensibility." Moviemaker, Winter 2001
See more reviews"This is quite simply the best book of film criticism I have ever read." --Caveh Zahedi, Filmmaker, Fall 2000
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- Date Published: June 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521485180
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- contains: 13 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Biographical and cultural introduction
Stylistic introduction: living beyond consciousness
1. Bleak Moments: fictitious selves
2. Hard Labour: melting the freezing
3. The Kiss of Death: temporal and spatial truth
4. Nuts in May: defeating easy knowledge
5. Abigail's Party: losing track of who you are
6. Who's Who: we are the hollow men
7. Grown-Ups: in praise of otherness
8. Home Sweet Home: manufactured emotions
9. Meantime: challenging forms of understanding
10. High Hopes: loose relations
11. Life is Sweet: circulation is the law of life
12. Naked: alone in the dark
Epilogue: the feel of life.
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