Jacob Leigh (born 10 May 1967) 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 (2002) The Cinema of Eric Rohmer: Irony, Imagination, and the Social World (2012) The Late Films of Claude Chabrol: Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity (2017) Contemporary Directors' Cinema (2024)
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External links Bloomsbury