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Article: I find the tragicomic things in life; an interview with Mike Leigh. (Interview)
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- Cineaste
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- June 22, 1993
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In an era when the 'death of the author' has been loudly proclaimed, the work of the British writer-director Mike Leigh disproves this kind of facile generalization and suggests a new model of authorship. Perhaps one of the few figures who will eventually be remembered as equally important within the history of both British theater and cinema, Leigh (who trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) is known for creating plays and film scenarios that are the product of an intimate process of collaboration with unusually talented casts. Although the only full length study of Leigh's stage and screen work to date is entitled The Improvised Play, it is important to ...
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