Description
A collection of interdisciplinary scholarly essays offering new ways of evaluating the career of Mike Leigh, England's greatest living social realist director.
About the Author
Bryan Cardinale-Powell is Visiting Professor of Moving Image Arts at Oklahoma City University, US. Marc DiPaolo is Assistant Professor of English and Film at Oklahoma City University, US.
Reviews
Including complete documentation of each essay and citation, sketches of the editors and authors, and a seven-page index, this is the best book on Leigh since Sean O'Sullivan's Mike Leigh (CH, Apr'12, 49-4358). Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. -- R. Blackwood, emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago * CHOICE *
The significance of Cardinale-Powell and DiPaolo's editorial achievement and approach in Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh resides in the extent to which their agenda frequently mirrors the terms of Leigh's cinematic equivalents. Like several great movies by that writer/director, this book manages to be both sympathetic and judicious in its collection and subsequent choreography of a potentially unworkable array of competing individual perspectives on a central subject. It extends existing critical debates around Leigh's film and television career and opens up new avenues of inquiry. In so doing, it both justifies its own existence and also prepares the ground for further Mike Leigh scholarship yet to come. -- Jonathan Murray * Cineaste *
The Devised and Directed by Mark Leigh is a must read for people seeking to understand the technicalities related in filmmaking. It will be very helpful to researchers, academicians, practitioners and lay readers to understand the art of story telling, film direction and studies. -- Swati Bute, AMITY University, India * Cinema Journal *
As this welcome collection of critical essays makes clear, the work of Mike Leigh continues to be as much deserving of attention from film scholars, as from journalists and reviewers. Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh offers ambitiously wide-ranging theoretical perspectives and approaches, and its contributors have produced new insights and interesting discussion of the work. As a result, it should serve both its primary academic audience, and 'any informed reader who is a fan of Leigh's work,' very well indeed. -- Anne Hogan, Lecturer in Film, University of Southampton, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781623565992
Author Bryan Cardinale-Powell
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 670g