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1 online resource (230 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
British Film Makers
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British film makers.
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| Contents |
9780719072369; 9780719072369; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'You've gotta laugh'; 1 'Really wants to direct': formative years; 2 'A kind of language': Bleak Moments; 3 'A long time in the womb': the TV fi lms; 4 'A different world': High Hopes; 5 'So long as you're happy': Life Is Sweet; 6 'The future is now': Naked; 7 'Welcome to the family': Secrets and Lies; 8 'All these memories': Career Girls; 9 'Laughter -- tears -- curtain': Topsy-Turvy; 10 'Life's too short': All or Nothing. |
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11 'Out of the kindness of her heart': Vera DrakeConclusion 'The journey continues'; Filmography; Select bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Mike Leigh may well be Britain?s greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this is the first study of his work to challenge the critical privileging of realism in histories of the British cinema, placing the emphasis instead on the importance of comedy and humour: of jokes and their functions, of laughter as a survival mechanism, and of characterisations and situati. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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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 picture producers and directors -- Great Britain -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Motion picture producers and directors. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Whitehead, Tony. Mike Leigh. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2012 9780719072369 |
| ISBN |
9781847791986 (electronic book) |
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1847791980 (electronic book) |
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