Cinema of Mike Leigh : A Sense of the Real, Paperback by Watson, Garry, Like ...
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Cinema of Mike Leigh : A Sense of the Real, Paperback by Watson, Garry, Like .... A keen observer of British manners and mores, Mike Leigh has been hailed as a celebrator of 'ordinary' people. Through careful textual detail and wider social and literary comparison with the works of Charles Dickens and. Cinema of Mike Leigh : A Sense of the Real, Paperback by Watson, Garry, ISBN 190476410X, ISBN-13 9781904764106, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A keen observer of British manners and mores, Mike Leigh has been hailed as a celebrator of 'ordinary' people. Comparing and contrasting all his films fromBleak Moments and High Hopes through Naked , the Oscar nominated Secrets and Lies and Topsy Turvy to All or Nothing , Garry Watson considers this claim, examining both their influence and their effect. Through careful textual detail and wider social and literary comparison with the works of Charles Dickens and . Eliot, he argues ultimately for the aritistic and cultural significance of Leigh's work as one of Britain's most respected film-makers.
