The cinema of Mike Leigh : a sense of the real / Garry Watson.

Author/creator Watson, Garry, 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Wallflower, 2004.
Descriptionx, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesDirectors' cuts
Directors' cuts. ^A588854
Contents 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 -- 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 Falubertian Leigh: on stupidity, taste, anger and resistance -- Comedies celebrating marriage, the family and the pursuit of happiness -- 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' -- A sense of the real.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-204) and index.
ISBN1903364906
ISBN190476410X (pbk.) :

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Joyner General Stacks PN1998.3.L445 W38 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold