Jacob Leigh


Jacob Leigh is a British film studies scholar. He is a senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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. In 2012, he published a book about the filmmaker Éric Rohmer, The Cinema of Eric Rohmer.

Selected publications

The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People The Cinema of Eric Rohmer: Irony, Imagination, and the Social World The Late Films of Claude Chabrol: Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity
  • ''Contemporary Directors' Cinema''