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OverviewAcclaimed British director Michael Winterbottom is renowned for the abundance and diversity of his output. His films span a wide range of genres in art house and mainstream cinema alike, from the heritage film to neo-noir. Working with different genres gives Winterbottom a framework in which to explore favored themes, while incorporating new ideas and taking on new challenges. At the same time, his manner of undermining familiar generic qualities and frustrating audience expectations also refreshes the genres he explores. In The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom, Deborah Allison investigates Winterbottom’s contributions to contemporary cinema, using ideas of genre as a critical tool. Focusing on eight films, Allison examines the ways he adopts, inflects, and challenges the main attributes of the films’ associated genres, enriching a highly personal and idiosyncratic style of filmmaking. The potency and integrity of his authorship unites films as generically diverse as the road movie Butterfly Kiss, western drama The Claim, sci-fi romance Code 46, and docudrama The Road to Guantanamo. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah AllisonPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9780739125847ISBN 10: 0739125842 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 06 November 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 FilmographyReviewsDeborah 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 Author InformationDeborah 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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