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Author O'Sullivan, Sean, 1965-

Title Mike Leigh / Sean O'Sullivan.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
©2011

Item Status

Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Contemporary film directors
Contemporary film directors.
Bibliography Includes filmography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The nature of contrivance. How to watch a Mike Leigh movie: The short and Curlies -- Biography and career outline -- Character and plot: Meantime and Four days in July -- Art and narrative: Naked and Secrets and Lies -- Topsy-turvy girls, career boys: Career girls and Topsy-turvy -- Vera's fingers: All or Nothing and Vera Drake -- Five lessons, Four seasons: Happy-go-lucky and Another year -- Interview with Mike Leigh.
Summary An examination of the work of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan illuminates the visual tropes and storytelling investigations that position Leigh as an experimental filmmaker who uses the art and artifice of cinema to frame tales of the everyday and the extraordinary alike.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Leigh, Mike, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Leigh, Mike, 1943-
Criticism and interpretation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Mike Leigh 9780252036385 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2011004552
ISBN 9780252036385 cloth : alkaline paper
0252036387 cloth : alkaline paper
9780252078194 paperback
0252078195 paperback
9780252093401 electronic
0252093402
1283244373
9781283244374
9786613244376
6613244376
Standard No. 9786613244376
40019805262
99945130424