Deborah Allison

Dr Deborah Allison is a London-based cinema programmer and an associate research fellow at De Montfort University’s Cinema and Television History Research Centre. She is the author of The Films of Aleksandr Rou: Father of Soviet Fairy-Tale Cinema (2025), Film Title Sequences: A Critical Anthology (2021), The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom (2012) and co-author of The Phoenix Picturehouse: 100 Years of Oxford Cinema Memories (2013). Her other writings about film appear in numerous books and journals, including Film International, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of Film and Video, Literature Film Quarterly, M/C Journal, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Screen, Senses of Cinema, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, and The Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film.