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Mike Leigh

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Description for Mike Leigh Paperback. A new look at a well-loved director's critical engagement with cinema Series: Contemporary Film Directors. Num Pages: 184 pages, 18 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions. In contrast with Leigh's prevailing reputation as a straightforward crafter of social realist movies, 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.

O'Sullivan challenges the prevailing characterizations of Leigh's cinema by detailing the complicated constructions of his realism, positing his films not as transparent records of life ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Contemporary Film Directors
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252078194
SKU
V9780252078194
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About Sean O´sullivan (Ed.)
Sean O'Sullivan is an assistant professor of English at The Ohio State University.

Reviews for Mike Leigh
"This intriguing artist is certainly worthy of this thorough study. Recommended."
Choice "For knowledgeable filmgoers this is a useful examination of Leigh's oeuvre."
Library Journal "Masterful. O'Sullivan utilizes astonishing scope and variation to confirm how Leigh's work bears comparison with the major work of the directors who have mattered most to the development of the latest of the great worldwide arts. It ... Read more

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