Cinema of Michael Winterbottom (eBook)

Deborah Allison (Autor)

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2012
232 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7391-2586-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom, by Deborah Allison, examines eight films by the contemporary British director Michael Winterbottom. This study explores the ways his inflection of established genre traditions partake in a personal, idiosyncratic style of film-making. Across a career encompassing both mainstream and art house cinema, the potency and integrity of his authorship unites films as generically diverse as the road film Butterfly Kiss, western drama The Claim, science fiction movie Code 46, and docudrama The Road to Guantanamo.

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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 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter One. Butterfly Kiss: The Road MovieChapter Two. Jude: The Heritage FilmChapter Three. Welcome to Sarajevo: War CinemaChapter Four. Wonderland: Social Realist DramaChapter Five. The Claim: The WesternChapter Six. Code 46: Science FictionChapter Seven. The Road to Guantanamo: DocudramaChapter Eight. The Killer Inside Me: Neo-NoirConclusionFilmography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.11.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Genre Film Auteurs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 24 Hour Party People • Andrew Eaton • Butterfly Kiss • Code 46 • Film, Television, and Literature • Frank Cottrell Boyce • michael winterbottom • Revolution Films • Road to Guantanamo • The Killer Inside Me • Welcome to Sarajevo
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-2586-9 / 0739125869
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-2586-1 / 9780739125861