Jacob Leigh, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

a Jacob Leigh, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: Jacob Leigh

Jacob Leigh is the author of The Cinema of Ken Loach, Reading Rohmer, The Cinema of Eric Rohmer, and The Late Films of Claude Chabrol, as well as essays on Ozu, Malick and Honoré. He teaches Film Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.

LGBT & Queer · Music & Musicals

Bonjour, Paris! Musical Conventions in Les Chansons d’amour (2007, Christophe Honoré)

April 17, 2019

Les Chansons d’amour is unusual because of the realism of its characters, setting and story; the film has little dance and no big production numbers, but it is a musical.[…]

Essays · Westerns

John Wayne Burns His Hand: Gestures in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)

October 31, 2018

Some actors’ gestures are the equivalent of a great singer, dancer, or athlete achieving the heights of their profession. And the reason so many people respond to Ford’s films by[…]

Author: Jacob Leigh

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