A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey (1961) is a landmark in British cinema history. In this book, Melanie Williams...
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Author: Melanie Williams
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A Taste of Honey by Williams, Melanie

A Taste of Honey

$40.65

A Taste of Honey

$40.65
Author: Melanie Williams
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A Taste of Honey (1961) is a landmark in British cinema history. In this book, Melanie Williams explores the many, extraordinary ways in which it was trailblazing. It is the only film of the British New Wave canon to have been written by a woman - Shelagh Delaney, adapting her own groundbreaking stage play. At the behest of director Tony Richardson and his company, Woodfall, it was one of the first films to be made entirely on location, and was shot in an innovative, rough, poetic style by cinematographer Walter Lassally. It was also the launchpad for a new type of young female star in Rita Tushingham.

Tushingham plays the young heroine, Jo, who finds she is pregnant after her love affair with Jimmy (Paul Danquah), a Black sailor. When Jimmy's ship sails away, Jo is comforted and supported by her gay friend Geoff (Murray Melvin), while her unreliable mother, Helen (Dora Bryan), has her own life to lead. Candid in its treatment of matters of gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality and motherhood, and highly distinctive in its evocation of place and landscape, A Taste of Honey marked the advent of new possibilities for the telling of working-class stories in British cinema. As such, its rich but complex legacy endures to this day.

Author: Melanie Williams
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: 04/20/2023
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781839021558

About the Author
Melanie Williams is Reader in Film and Television Studies in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is author of Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question (2017) and David Lean (2014). She is co-editor of Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered (2020), Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema (2019), and Ealing Revisited (British Film Institute, 2012).

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