<span><span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom</span><span>, 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 </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Butterfly Kiss</span><span>, western drama </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Claim</span><span>, science fiction movie </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Code 46</span><span>, and docudrama </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Road to Guantanamo</span><span>. </span></span><br /></span>