Melanie Williams: A Taste of Honey

Cover: 9781839021558 | A Taste of Honey | Melanie Williams | Taschenbuch | BFI Film Classics

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Melanie Williams

Zusammenfassung

Beautifully illustrated with stills from the film

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tasting Much Sweeter Than Wine
1. Hivemind: Origins and Production of the Film
2. Into the Film: A Young Woman's Prospects
3. 'This is the place': An Interlude on Location, Landscape and Local Knowledge
4. Unique, Young, Unrivalled, Smashing: Jo's Progress
5. Is There Honey Still for Tea?: Assessing the Film's Legacy Notes
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Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Theater & Film
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	BFI Film Classics
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781839021558
ISBN-10:	1839021551
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	492634
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Williams, Melanie
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC BFI Film Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	187 x 138 x 7 mm
Von/Mit:	Melanie Williams
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.04.2023
Gewicht:	0,163 kg