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Deborah Allison is a London-based cinema programmer. She holds a doctorate in film studies from the University of East Anglia, and her writing has appeared in more than a dozen books and journals, including Film Criticism, Film Quarterly, Senses of Cinema, Screen, Scope and The Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film.
Introduction
Chapter One. Butterfly Kiss: The Road Movie
Chapter Two. Jude: The Heritage Film
Chapter Three. Welcome to Sarajevo: War Cinema
Chapter Four. Wonderland: Social Realist Drama
Chapter Five. The Claim: The Western
Chapter Six. Code 46: Science Fiction
Chapter Seven. The Road to Guantanamo: Docudrama
Chapter Eight. The Killer Inside Me: Neo-Noir
Conclusion
Filmography
Deborah Allison has grasped [Winterbottom’s] distinctive modus operandi, which no other filmmaker would dare imitate, or could afford to. Her tour of Winterbottom’s glorious ups and occasional downs, a mid-career assessment, confirms Winterbottom’s place as the most versatile and prolific director of his generation. The reader can decide whether Winterbottom’s determination to take on so many varied challenges is courageous or crazy, or both.
— David D'Arcy, Screen International
Michael Winterbottom is terrifically prolific and diverse in his cinematic output. It is difficult to write about someone who is still producing work, and Allison makes no claim to offer definitive statements. It remains to follow Winterbottom’s career in the years ahead, and the growth of critical analysis of his work, to which The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom makes a sterling contribution.
— Screening The Past
The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom is. . . traditional in terms of methodology, but. . . eloquent and explicit on the question of value.
— Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies