Naked And Other Screenplays

Author : Mike Leigh,Graham Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571173861

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Naked and Other Screenplays by Mike Leigh,Graham Fuller Pdf

Three screenplays by Mike Leigh. Naked presents a bleak picture of urban society, Life is Sweet is a gentle comedy in which the pain of everyday life is borne with a wry smile, and High Hopes is a comedy of class-ridden life in contemporary Britain.

Author : Lew Hunter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538137963

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Naked Screenwriting by Lew Hunter Pdf

Award-winning screenwriters reveal their Hollywood secrets in crafting brilliant stories and methodology through interviews with world-renowned UCLA screenwriting professor Lew Hunter. Naked Screenwriting includes interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Billy Wilder, Oliver Stone, Bruce Joel Rubin, William Goldman, Julius Epstein, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Alfred Uhry, Tom Schulman, Ted Tally, Ruth Prawer Jabvola, Eric Roth, Jean-Claude Carriere, Frank Pierson, David Ward, Horton Foote, Ron Bass, Alan Ball, Callie Khouri, Robert Benton, Irving Ravetch, and Harriet Frank Junior. Never before has a book covered Oscar-winning writers so thoroughly, shedding insight and wisdom into the art of screenwriting.

Author : Garry Watson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 190476410X

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The Cinema of Mike Leigh by Garry Watson Pdf

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 from Bleak 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 T.S. Eliot, he argues ultimately for the aritistic and cultural significance of Leigh's work as one of Britain's most respected film-makers.

Author : Bryan Cardinale-Powell,Marc DiPaolo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781623565640

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Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh by Bryan Cardinale-Powell,Marc DiPaolo Pdf

Renowned for making films that are at once sly domestic satires and heartbreaking 'social realist' dramas, British writer-director Mike Leigh confronts his viewers with an un-romanticized dramatization of modern-day society in the hopes of inspiring them to strive for greater self-awareness and compassion for others. This collection features new, interdisciplinary essays that cover all phases of the BAFTA-award-winner's film career, from his early made-for-television film work to his theatrical releases, including Life is Sweet (1990), Naked (1993), Secrets & Lies (1996), Career Girls (1997), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) and Another Year (2010). With contributions from international scholars from a variety of fields, the essays in this collection cover individual films and the recurring themes and motifs in several films, such as representations of class and gender, and overt social commentary and political subtexts. Also covered are Leigh's visual stylizations and storytelling techniques ranging from explorations of the costume design to set design to the music and camerawork and editing; the collaborative process of 'devising and directing' a Mike Leigh film that involves character-building, world-construction, plotting, improvisations and script-writing; the process of funding and marketing for these seemingly 'uncommercial' projects, and a survey of Leigh's critical reception and the existing writing on his work.

Author : Jim Leach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052165419X

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British Film by Jim Leach Pdf

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Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : 0571202640

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Naked by Mike Leigh Pdf

Few directors in contemporary cinema have laid bare the divisions, misunderstandings and grievances of our society with such skill and rigour as Mike Leigh. Naked is perhaps his most daring achievement, and was hugely acclaimed at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. It's a drama that offers an unlovely vision of London and its denizens, one which many people would rather ignore. Leigh's protagonist Johnny is a consummate nineties anti-hero: full of spleen and repellence, cruelly funny, seemingly callous and careless, yet capable of startling passion and fellow-feeling. In Naked, violence and gentleness, comedy and tragedy go hand in hand, amid a landscape inhabited by the kind of raw drawn-from-life characters only Mike Leigh can create.

Author : Karl Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781447504283

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Print-on-demand Technical Guide: Screenplay Publishing by Karl Smith Pdf

Author : William C. Martell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Motion picture authorship
ISBN : 0970067704

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The Secrets of Action Screenwriting by William C. Martell Pdf

Author : Jack Sargeant
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781593762209

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Naked Lens by Jack Sargeant Pdf

Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit—arguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture—Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture, and cinema. Naked Lens features key Beat players and their collaborators, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Klaus Maeck, and Gus van Sant. As well as examining clearly Beat-inspired films such as Pull My Daisy, Chappaqua, and The Flower Thief, Jack Sargeant discusses cinéma vérité and performance films (Shadows and Wholly Communion), B-movies (The Subterraneans and Roger Corman’s Bucket of Blood), and Hollywood adaptations (Heart Beat and Barfly). The second half of the book is devoted to an extensive analysis of the films relating to William Burroughs, from Antony Balch’s Towers Open Fire to David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch. This book also contains the last ever interview with writer Allen Ginsberg, recorded three months before his death in April 1997.

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571283033

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Grief by Mike Leigh Pdf

1957. War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin. More and more isolated from her married friends with their successful children, Dorothy tries to cope with Victoria's increasingly hostile behaviour. But is she doing her best, as she thinks, or is she in fact responsible for what threatens to become an unendurable situation?'A exquisitely observed, profoundly quiet slice of 1950s suburban life.' The Sunday Times'Meticulously evocative' Independent'Manville is magnificent in this broodingly muted family drama.' Sunday Express'Leigh makes you laugh and laugh - until you cry.' Time Out'A haunting portrait of loss and loneliness, exquisitely acted throughout and led by a riveting performance by Manville.' Financial Times'Leigh's meticulous production potently captures the pain that lurked behind stiff upper lips in the England of the Fifties.' Daily Telegraph'Nobody gets more truthful performances from actors than Mike Leigh.' The Times'The acting is superb.' Guardian'Leigh directs with sensitivity.' Evening Standard'Extraordinarily poignant' Independent on Sunday

Author : Nathan Abrams
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810132849

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Hidden in Plain Sight by Nathan Abrams Pdf

Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture is the first collection of its kind on this subject. The volume brings together a range of original essays that address different aspects of the role and presence of Jews and Jewishness in British film and television from the interwar period to the present. It constructs a historical overview of the Jewish contribution to British film and television, which has not always been sufficiently acknowledged. Each chapter presents a case study reflective of the specific Jewish experience as well as its particularly British context, with cultural representations of how Jews responded to events from the 1930s and '40s, including World War II, the Holocaust, and a legacy of antisemitism, through to the new millennium.

Author : Richard Brook,Nick Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351876490

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Urban Maps by Richard Brook,Nick Dunn Pdf

This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems, artifacts, interventions and evidences that can inform our understanding of urban territories; on surfaces, in the margins or within voids. The diverse media of arts practices as well as commercial branding are used to explore narratives that reveal latent characteristics of urban situations that conventional architectural inquiry is unable to do. The subjects covered are presented within a wider framework of urban theory into which are embedded case study examples that outline the practices, processes and interpretations of each theme. The chapters provide a contemporary reading of urban socio-cultural conditions using 'mapping' as a lens to explore and communicate the social phenomena and lived experiences of the dynamic and temporal city. Mapping is developed as a form of critical instrumentality to expose, record and contribute to the understanding of the singular essences of space, place and networks by thematic, cognitive and experiential modes of investigation.

Author : Ivone Margulies
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822330660

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Rites of Realism by Ivone Margulies Pdf

DIVA collection of essays rethinking and reviving realism as a focus for film theory, particularly emphasizing the relation of the genre to issues of the body./div

Author : Sean O'Sullivan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252093401

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Mike Leigh by Sean O'Sullivan Pdf

In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions. In contrast with Leigh's prevailing reputation as a straightforward crafter of social realist movies, O'Sullivan illuminates the visual tropes and storytelling investigations that position Leigh as an experimental filmmaker who uses the art and artifice of cinema to frame tales of the everyday and the extraordinary alike. O'Sullivan challenges the prevailing characterizations of Leigh's cinema by detailing the complicated constructions of his realism, positing his films not as transparent records of life but as aesthetic transformations of it. Concentrating on the most recent two decades of Leigh's career, the study examines how Naked, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Vera Drake, and other films engage narrative convergence and narrative diffusion, the tension between character and plot, the interplay of coincidence and design, cinema's relationship to other systems of representation, and the filmic rendering of the human figure. The book also spotlights such earlier, less-discussed works as Four Days in July and The Short and Curlies, illustrating the recurring visual and storytelling concerns of Leigh's cinema. With a detailed filmography, this volume also includes key selections from O'Sullivan's several interviews with Leigh.

Author : Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764711

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Fires Were Started by Lester D. Friedman Pdf

Fires Were Started is a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. This second edition includes revised and updated contributions from some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen and Manthia Diawara. The book discuss prominent filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg and Stephen Frears, it also explores some lesser known but equally important territory such as the work of Black British filmmakers, the Leeds Animation Workshop and Channel 4's Film on Four. Films discussed include Distant Voices, Still Lives, My Beautiful Launderette, Chariots of Fire and Drowning by Numbers.