Jacob Leigh
Jacob Leigh | |
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| Born | 10 May 1967 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Film scholar |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Film studies |
| Institutions | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Notable works |
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| Website | bloomsbury.com |
Jacob Leigh (born 10 May 1967[1]) is a British film studies scholar. He is a senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London.[2]
Leigh obtained a PhD degree on a thesis about themes and style in Ken Loach's films, which also was the subject of his first book, The Cinema of Ken Loach from 2002.[3][4][5] In 2012, he published a book about the filmmaker Éric Rohmer, The Cinema of Eric Rohmer.[6]
Selected publications
- The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People (2002)
- The Cinema of Eric Rohmer: Irony, Imagination, and the Social World (2012)
- The Late Films of Claude Chabrol: Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity (2017)
- Contemporary Directors' Cinema (2024)[1]
References
- ^ a b "Leigh, Jacob, 1967-". Yale LUX. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
- ^ ."Jacob Leigh". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
- ^ Cooke, Lez (2004). "Jacob Leigh, The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art In The Service of the People". Journal of British Cinema and Television. 1 (1): 211. doi:10.3366/JBCTV.2004.1.1.164.
- ^ Grandena, Florian (2004). "Realism, Politics, and Melodrama, on Jacob Leigh The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People". Film-Philosophy. 8 (3). doi:10.3366/film.2004.0003.
- ^ Rothschild, Thomas (2002). "Jacob Leigh: The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People London/New York: Wallflower Press 2002 (Director's Cuts), 211 S., ISBN 1-903364-31-0, f 13.99". MEDIENwissenschaft Rezensionen, Reviews (in German). 19 (4): 508–509. doi:10.25969/mediarep/7580.
- ^ Schilling, Derek (2014). "Review of The Cinema of Éric Rohmer: Irony, Imagination, and the Social World, by Jacob Leigh". The French Review. 87 (4): 197–198. doi:10.1353/tfr.2014.0230 – via Project MUSE.