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Mike Leigh: (Contemporary Film Directors)
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Sean O'Sullivan (Author)
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In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions. In contrast with Leigh's prevailing reputation as a straightforward crafter of social realist movies, 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. O'Sullivan challenges the prevailing characterizations of Leigh's cinema by detailing the complicated constructions of his realism, positing his films not as transparent records of life but as aesthetic transformations of it. Concentrating on the most recent two decades of Leigh's career, the study examines how Naked, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Vera Drake, and other films engage narrative convergence and narrative diffusion, the tension between character and plot, the interplay of coincidence and design, cinema's relationship to other systems of representation, and the filmic rendering of the human figure. The book also spotlights such earlier, less-discussed works as Four Days in July and The Short and Curlies, illustrating the recurring visual and storytelling concerns of Leigh's cinema. With a detailed filmography, this volume also includes key selections from O'Sullivan's several interviews with Leigh. 18 black and white photographs CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Sean O'Sullivan is an assistant professor of English at The Ohio State University.
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- Contributor: Sean O'Sullivan
- Imprint: University of Illinois Press
- ISBN13: 9780252036385
- Number of Pages: 184
- Packaged Dimensions: 140x210x18mm
- Packaged Weight: 399
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Release Date: 2011-08-24
- Series: Contemporary Film Directors
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Sean O'Sullivan is an assistant professor of English at The Ohio State University.
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