Garry Watson is Professor of English at the University of Alberta and teaches English, American literature and cinema
Acknowledgements
vi
Preface
vii
Part One: Establishing a New Context
1 The Reception of Leigh's Work: Revising Our Expectations
3
(15)
2 The Extraordinary Element of Too-Muchness at the Heart of the Ordinary
18
(9)
3 In Pursuit of the Real
27
(8)
Part Two: The Films (I)
4 The Feminist Leigh: Two Women 'on the other side of silence'
35
(15)
5 Leigh and Lawrence on 'the middle-class thing' and What it Leaves Out
50
(16)
6 The Political and the Flaubertian Leigh: On Stupidity, Taste, Anger and Resistance
66
(19)
7Comedies Celebrating Marriage, the Family and the Pursuit of Happiness
85
(18)
Part Three: The Films (II)
8 'Are you with me?': Leigh's 'Traumatising Seducer'
103
(22)
9 In Search of the Missing Mother/Daughter
125
(14)
10 A Meta-commentary on Leigh's Art and an Exploration of Female Friendship
139
(10)
11 Work as Play: The Utopian Element
149
(15)
12 'In the messianic light'
164
(20)
13 Conclusion: A Sense of the Real
184
(7)
Notes
191
(8)
Bibliography
199
(6)
Index
205
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