Establishing a new context: the reception of Leigh's work: revising our expectations
The extraordinary element of too-muchness at the heart of the ordinary
The feminist Leigh: two women 'on the other side of silence'
Leigh and Lawrence on 'the middle-class thing' and what it leaves out
The political and the Falubertian Leigh: on stupidity, taste, anger and resistance
Comedies celebrating marriage, the family and the pursuit of happiness
'Are you with me?': Leigh's traumatising seducer'
In search of the missing mother/daughter
A meta-commentary on Leigh's art and an exploration of female friendship
Work as play: the utopian element