Devised and directed by Mike Leigh:

Renowned for making films that are at one sly comedies and stark, 'social realist' dramas, British writer-director Mike Leigh challenges his viewers to see the unvarnished truth about modern-day society. This collection features new essays that cover all phases of the BAFTA-award-winner�...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Bloomsbury 2015
Ausgabe:Paperback ed.
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Zusammenfassung:Renowned for making films that are at one sly comedies and stark, 'social realist' dramas, British writer-director Mike Leigh challenges his viewers to see the unvarnished truth about modern-day society. This collection features new essays that cover all phases of the BAFTA-award-winner's career, from his early television work to his theatrical films, including 'Life is sweet,' 'Naked,' 'Secret & Lies,' 'All or Nothing,' and 'Vera Drake.' Contributions also cover many themes recurrent in many of his films, representations of politics, class, race, gender; the changing cultural and political landscape of Great Britain; the differentiation of Leigh from other British creators; and how Leigh's real life informs his work
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: The politics and poetics of comic-realist cinema / Marc DiPaolo -- Part 1: Devising Leigh. The industry and/of the auteur : producing and marketing Mike Leigh / Christopher Meir ; Devising and directing / Robert Marchand ; Every performance is a contrivance : art and truth in Topsy-turvy / Andrew Crowther ; Costuming choices : stylization and Leigh's selective realism / Brenda Wentworth, Christopher Jordan, and Sharon E. Cogdill ; Cultural stillbirth : an examination of reactions to Vera Drake / Bryan Cardinale-Powell -- Part 2: It's an ordinary life. The uniqueness of ordinary lives : Home sweet home and Grown-ups / Leonard Quart ; 'Taking the temperature' : masculinities and male identities from Bleak moments to Happy-go-lucky / Sarah Godfrey ; Transgression and transcendence / William Verrone -- Part 3: Beyond verisimilitude. Melodrama and tradition in Vera Drake and Another year / Stella Hockenhull ; Class, loss and space : reframing Secrets & lies / Frances Pheasant-Kelly ; All or nothing : Mike Leigh and The fickle finger / Bryan Cardinale-Powell -- Part 4: Leigh versus the Tories. 'Those days are over' : Naked and Something rotten in the early 1990s / Steven Morrison ; Gendered troubles on screen : reproduction and nationalism in Mike Leigh's Four days in July / Derek Gladwin ; 'No room to live' : learning disability, class and fluctuating identifications in Meantime / Ana Katherine Miller ; The grotesque state of the nation : Mike Leigh's High hopes and the lessons of cultural studies / Kevin M. Flanagan ; 'I spy' : Mike Leigh in the age of Britpop (a critical memoir) / David Sweeney
Beschreibung:VIII, 359 S. Ill. 24 cm
ISBN:9781501307256
9781623565992

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