TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edward Trostle Jones
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - All or Nothing
T2  - The Cinema of Mike Leigh
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098517
N2  - 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.
KW  - Leigh, Mike, Film, Criticism
LA  - English
ER  -