Jacob Leigh

OFFICE: Arts Building, G5. For appointments, please email me on the above address.

My research interests are in the following areas: film interpretation, film style, film storytelling and film aesthetics. I wrote my PhD and first book on realism and politics in Ken Loach’s films and since then I have written an essay about Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, and several essays and a book on Eric Rohmer’s films. I have recently finished a book on contemporary film directors. I am currently researching a book on Adam Curtis's documentaries. 

I teach the work of a wide range of filmmakers, including Howard Hawks, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor, F.W. Murnau, John Ford, Max Ophuls, Carl Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu and Roberto Rossellini. I currently teach the following courses: Film Style and Interpretation; Film Theory: Hitchcock and Point of View; Hollywood Star Performances; Critical Theory and Textual Analysis. I have also taught a course on Documentary.

Courses Taught

MA3080/1 Film Style and Interpretation

MA2057 Film Theory: Hitchcock and Point of View

MA2061 Hollywood Star Performances

MA1052 Critical Theory and Textual Analysis.

Research Interests

Film aesthetics, film style, film narrative, interpretation, evaluation, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Terrence Malick, Yasujiro Ozu.