Jacob Leigh

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.