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Article: Mike Leigh
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- Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 1943) is a British writer and director whose works have appeared on film, television, and the stage. Leigh's unusual methodology for writing his works
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working in collaboration with the actors who will would portray his characters
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has resulted in such critically acclaimed films as Naked and Secrets and Lies.
Mike Leigh was born February 20, 1943, in Salford, Lancashire, England, the son of Dr. Alfred Abraham and Phyllison Pauline (Cousin) Leigh. His physician father was of Jewish descent, and the family name had been changed from Lieberman to Leigh by the time Leigh was born. Dr. Leigh's practice was in a working-class neighborhood, and Leigh ...
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Article: The "Politics and Poetics' of Embodiment in Mike ...
Journal of Popular Film and Television;
March 22, 2001 ;
700+ words
... ... likely to read about the films of Mike Leigh is that they are political, and ... the small body of critical work on Mike Leigh. I will, nonetheless, concede ... political sloganeering" (11). Mike Leigh problematizes; he does not proselytize ...
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