Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial Note
- Acknowledgments
- Biographical and Cultural Introduction
- 1 Stylistic Introduction: Living beyond Consciousness
- 2 Fictitious Selves: Bleak Moments
- 3 Personal Freezing and Stylistic Melting: Hard Labour
- 4 Existence without Essences: The Kiss of Death
- 5 Defeating Systems of Knowing: Nuts in May
- 6 Losing Track of Who You Are: Abigail's Party
- 7 We Are the Hollow Men: Who's Who
- 8 Inhabiting Otherness: Grown-Ups
- 9 Manufactured Emotions: Home Sweet Home
- 10 Challenging Easy Understandings: Meantime
- 11 Holding Experience Loosely: High Hopes
- 12 Circulation Is the Law of Life: Life Is Sweet
- 13 Desperate Lives: Naked
- Epilogue: The Feel of Life
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
Editorial Note
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial Note
- Acknowledgments
- Biographical and Cultural Introduction
- 1 Stylistic Introduction: Living beyond Consciousness
- 2 Fictitious Selves: Bleak Moments
- 3 Personal Freezing and Stylistic Melting: Hard Labour
- 4 Existence without Essences: The Kiss of Death
- 5 Defeating Systems of Knowing: Nuts in May
- 6 Losing Track of Who You Are: Abigail's Party
- 7 We Are the Hollow Men: Who's Who
- 8 Inhabiting Otherness: Grown-Ups
- 9 Manufactured Emotions: Home Sweet Home
- 10 Challenging Easy Understandings: Meantime
- 11 Holding Experience Loosely: High Hopes
- 12 Circulation Is the Law of Life: Life Is Sweet
- 13 Desperate Lives: Naked
- Epilogue: The Feel of Life
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Leonard Quart contributed the “Biographical and Cultural Introduction” and Chapter 13, “Desperate Lives: Naked.” Ray Carney wrote the rest of the text, chose the photographs, and wrote the captions.
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- The Films of Mike Leigh , pp. xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000