1968
in Being Hal Ashby
March 2009; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: film. 5338 words.
This chapter examines the developments in Hal Ashby's career and personal life during the year 1968. Ashby filed for divorce and give Shirley Citron $100 alimony per week. His collaboration with...
A ‘Passion for the Real’: Sex, Affect and Performance in the Films of Andrea Arnold
in The New Extremism in Cinema
June 2011; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: film. 5711 words.
This chapter explores what the idea of a new European extremism might mean in the context of contemporary filmmaking in Britain by addressing the work of Andrea Arnold. While Arnold's work is seen to...
A ‘Third Path’
in Cinema and Sensation
October 2007; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: film. 19301 words.
Taking Artaud’s call for a ‘third path’ in cinema as a cue, chapter 1 examines cinema’s intricate history with materiality, sensationalism and transgression. It emphasizes the continuing belief in...
‘A City with no Virgins’ Berlin and Writers of the Thirties
in The Cambridge Quarterly
January 2000; published online January 2000.
Journal Article. Subjects: literature; art; film; media studies. 0 words.
‘A different world’: High Hopes
in Mike Leigh
January 2012; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: film. 7242 words.
This chapter deals with Mike Leigh's film, High Hopes. Mike's need to create a stronger bond with his mother, after his father's death, informs one of the key character relationships in High Hopes....
‘A discreet character?’ Action spaces and architectural specificity in French poetic realist cinema
in Screen
January 2004; published online January 2004.
Journal Article. Subjects: film. 0 words.
‘A fine and private place’: the cinematic spaces of the London Underground
in Screen
January 2006; published online January 2006.
Journal Article. Subjects: film. 8215 words.
This article explores the attraction of underground railways as a setting in film through the detailed analysis of several films from the second half of the twentieth century. Opening with a...
‘A kind of language’: Bleak Moments
in Mike Leigh
January 2012; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: film. 6993 words.
This chapter looks at Mike Leigh's first feature, where he, with his partner Blair in Autumn Productions, funded their first project with the help of the British Film Institute Production Board and...
‘A kind of recreative school for the whole family’: making cinema respectable, 1907–09
in Screen
January 2001; published online January 2001.
Journal Article. Subjects: film. 0 words.
‘A long time in the womb’: the TV films
in Mike Leigh
January 2012; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: film. 11330 words.
This chapter draws attention to Leigh's 1977 play—and its TV adaptation—Abigail's Party. Abigail's Party was just one of the nine feature-length productions which Leigh devised and directed between...