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Mike Leigh (Paperback)
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Mike Leigh (Paperback)
Series: British Film-Makers
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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. -- .
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