| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Contemporary film directors |
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Contemporary film directors.
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| Contents |
The nature of contrivance. How to watch a Mike Leigh movie: The short and Curlies -- Biography and career outline -- Character and plot: Meantime and Four days in July -- Art and narrative: Naked and Secrets and Lies -- Topsy-turvy girls, career boys: Career girls and Topsy-turvy -- Vera's fingers: All or Nothing and Vera Drake -- Five lessons, Four seasons: Happy-go-lucky and Another year -- Interview with Mike Leigh |
| Summary |
An examination of the work of Mike Leigh, Sean 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Leigh, Mike, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Leigh, Mike, 1943- fast |
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Leigh, Mike 1943- gnd |
| Subject |
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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Film
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Filmregissörer -- Storbritannien.
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Regissörer.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019716605 |
| ISBN |
9780252093401 |
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0252093402 |
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1283244373 |
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9781283244374 |
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9786613244376 |
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6613244376 |
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