Acknowledgments The Nature of Contrivance How to Watch a Mike Leigh Movie: The Short and Curlies; Biography and Career Outline; Character and Plot: Meantime and Four Days in July; Art and Narrative: Naked and Secrets and Lies; Topsy-Turvy Girls, Career Boys: Career Girls and Topsy-Turvy; Vera's Fingers: All or Nothing and Vera Drake; Five Lessons, Four Seasons: Happy-Go-Lucky and Another Year Interview with Mike Leigh Filmography; Bibliography
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''Masterful. O'Sullivan utilizes astonishing scope and variation to confirm how Leigh's work bears comparison with the major work of the directors who have mattered most to the development of the latest of the great worldwide arts. It is a very lucky artist that finds and inspires so articulate and artistic a critic.''--Stanley Cavell, author of Cavell on Film