Deadline at Dawn: The film criticism of Judith Williamson

Bringing a new humanism into British film criticism as the Old Left was in decline, Judith Williamson's work was an indignant retort to Thatcherism's assault on the British status quo. It also reiterated the terms for a productive British conversation about film. For Adrian Martin, Williamson's own collection Deadline at Dawn (Marion Boyars, 1993) remains highly influential, while for Sight and Sound critic Jonathan Romney, she was a pioneer and role model' (Romney 1997: vii)