Mike Leigh by Sean O`sullivan PAPERBACK 9780252078194

Mike Leigh\nby Sean O`sullivan\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Sean O`sullivan\nTitle: Mike Leigh\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Film history, theory or criticism\nPublisher: MO - University of Illinois Press\nPublication year: 2011\nISBN-13: 9780252078194\nISBN-10: 0252078195\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn 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 cinem.