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1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the politics and poetics of comic-realist cinema / by Marc DiPaolo -- Devising Leigh. Christopher Meir: The industry and/of the auteur -- Robert Marchand : Devising and directing -- Andrew Crowther: Every performance is a contrivance: art & truth in Topsy-turvy -- Brenda Wentworth, Christopher Jordan, and Sharon Cogdill: Costuming choices: stylization and Leigh's selective realism -- Bryan Cardinale-Powell: Cultural stillbirth: an examination of reactions to Vera Drake -- It's an ordinary life. Leonard Quart: The uniqueness of ordinary lives: Home sweet home and Grown-ups -- Sarah Godfrey: Masculinities and male identities from Bleak moments to Happy-go-lucky -- William Verrone: Transgression and transcendence beyond verisimilitude. Stella Hockenhull: Melodrama and tradition in Vera Drake and Another year -- Frances Pheasant-Kelly: Class, loss and space: reframing Secrets & lies -- Bryan Cardinale-Powell: All or nothing: Mike Leigh and The fickle finger -- Leigh versus the Tories. Steven Morrison: "Those days are over": Naked & Something rotten in the 1990s -- Derek Gladwin: Gendered troubles on screen: reproducing nationalism in Four days in July -- Ana Miller: Fluctuating identifications, learning disability, and class in Meantime -- Kevin M. Flanagan: The grotesque state of the nation: Mike Leigh's High hopes and The Thatcherite comedy of errors -- David Sweeney: 'I spy': Mike Leigh in the age of Britpop. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Leigh, Mike, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Leigh, Mike, 1943- (OCoLC)fst00055182
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film& Video -- Direction & Production.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Cardinale-Powell, Bryan, editor.
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Di Paolo, Marc, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Devised and directed by Mike Leigh. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 9781623565992 (DLC) 2013005684 (OCoLC)835951170 |
| ISBN |
9781623569532 (electronic bk.) |
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1623569532 (electronic bk.) |
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