| Description |
x, 207 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Directors' cuts
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Directors' cuts.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Establishing a new context. The reception of Leigh's work : revising our expectations ; The extraordinary element of too-muchness at the heart of the ordinary ; In pursuit of the real -- pt. 2. The films (I). The feminist Leigh : two women 'on the other side of silence' ; Leigh and Lawrence on 'the middle-class thing' and what it leaves out ; The political and the Flaubertian Leigh : on stupidity, taste, anger and resistance ; Comedies celebrating marriage, the family and the pursuit of happiness -- pt. 3. The films (II). 'Are you with me?' : Leigh's 'traumatising seducer' ; In search of the missing mother/daughter ; A meta-commentary on Leigh's art and an exploration of female friendship ; Work as play : the utopian element ; 'In the messianic light' ; Conclusion : a sense of the real. |
| Subject |
Leigh, Mike, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Leigh, Mike, 1943- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Motion pictures -- Great Britain.
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Motion pictures. |
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Great Britain. |
| ISBN |
190476410X paperback |
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1903364906 cased |
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9781903364901 cased |
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9781904764106 paperback |
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