All or Nothing: The Cinema of Mike Leigh (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820467450)

This critical study of Mike Leigh's cinema is a comprehensive assessment of his thirty plus years in film, including his television features, from the first feature-length Bleak Moments to All or Nothing. Through his own species of tragicomedy and favored thematic content concentrating on relationships, Leigh enlarges the emotional boundaries of cinema for performers and audience alike. His deep and fully realized characters often subvert both decorum and irony traditionally associated with British film and television. Leigh's sense of the reciprocity and interpenetration of the material mundane, the ridiculous, and the humanistic sublime brings respect for the complexity of the ordinary and merits celebration within the democratic and demotic art of film.

Author: Frank Beaver,Edward Trostle Jones
ISBN-10: 0820467456
ISBN-13: 9780820467450
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2004
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback