Mike Leigh:
'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 Le...
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Manchester University Press
2013
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| 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 situations that disrupt our preconceptions of ‘realism’. Striving for the all-important quality of truth in everything he does, Leigh has consistently shown how ordinary lives are too complex to fit snugly into the conventions of narrative art. From the bittersweet observation of Life is Sweet or Secrets and Lies, to the blistering satire of Naked and the manifest compassion of Vera Drake, he has demonstrated a matchless ability to perceive life’s funny side as well as its tragedies' --Back cover |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 217 pages) illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
| ISBN: | 9781847791986 |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introductio -- ‘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 films --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 --11. ‘Out of the kindness of her heart’: Vera Drake --Conclusion: ‘The journey continues’ --Filmography | |
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| contents | Introductio -- ‘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 films --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 --11. ‘Out of the kindness of her heart’: Vera Drake --Conclusion: ‘The journey continues’ --Filmography |
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| spelling | Whitehead, Tony Verfasser aut Mike Leigh Tony Whitehead Manchester, UK Manchester University Press 2013 ©2012 1 online resource (ix, 217 pages) illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index Introductio -- ‘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 films --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 --11. ‘Out of the kindness of her heart’: Vera Drake --Conclusion: ‘The journey continues’ --Filmography '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 situations that disrupt our preconceptions of ‘realism’. Striving for the all-important quality of truth in everything he does, Leigh has consistently shown how ordinary lives are too complex to fit snugly into the conventions of narrative art. From the bittersweet observation of Life is Sweet or Secrets and Lies, to the blistering satire of Naked and the manifest compassion of Vera Drake, he has demonstrated a matchless ability to perceive life’s funny side as well as its tragedies' --Back cover Manchester University Press Sonstige oth |
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