The cinema of Michael Winterbottom / Deborah Allison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allison, Deborah, 1973-

Series:

Genre film auteurs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Winterbottom, Michael--Criticism and interpretation.

Winterbottom, Michael.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 224 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

Summary:

Acclaimed 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 Winterbottom's 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Butterfly kiss: the road movie

Jude: the heritage film

Welcome to Sarajevo: war cinema

Wonderland: social realist drama

The claim: the western

Code 46: science fiction

The road to Guantanamo: docudrama

The killer inside me: neo-noir

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

9780739125830

0739125834

9780739125847

0739125842

9780739125861

0739125869

OCLC:

806017625