Mike Leigh

Mike LeighMike Leigh may well be Britains greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television.

science and agriculture nationally and internationally

fuses history

national and global resistance

Brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry

By questioning what 'Britishness' meant in relation to the small-scale work of these practitioners

the book describes the anti-heroic army career of Richard Ennis

central and late middle ages with fluctuations in the size of the circulating medium and the availability of credit acting as either a brake on or a stimulus to economic expansion

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Saudade in Brazilian Cinema looks specifically at how this emotion is imagined on the screen

this book will appeal to every fan and critic of the films

Newly revised and expanded

where he interacts with a wide range of individuals