Devised and directed by Mike Leigh / edited by Bryan Cardinale-Powell and Marc DiPaolo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cardinale-Powell, Bryan, editor.

Di Paolo, Marc, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leigh, Mike, 1943---Criticism and interpretation.

Leigh, Mike.

Leigh, Mike, 1943-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781623565992

1623565995

OCLC:

835951170