Items where Author is "Williams, Melanie"

In Press

Williams, Melanie (2024) Video essay commentary on Julie Christie for Via Vision Blu Ray release of Darling I1965). UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

Published

Williams, Melanie (2024) Reflections in a Golden Eye: Exploring the photographic art of Margaret Nolan and Shirley Eaton. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 21 (4). pp. 513-535. ISSN 1743-4521

Williams, Melanie (2024) Muriel Box. Senses of Cinema (110). ISSN 1443-4059

Forrest, David and Williams, Melanie (2024) Introduction: Revisiting the British New Wave. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 21 (3). pp. 281-285. ISSN 1743-4521

Williams, Melanie (2024) Morgan, Diana (1908-1996). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.

Williams, Melanie (2024) Nolan, Margaret (1943-2020). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.

Williams, Melanie (2024) Entries on Laurie Day and Sarah Daly for 'Women in Focus' project website. In: Women in Focus: The Filmmakers. UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie (2024) Interview for Studiocanal Blu-ray/DVD release of The Weak and the Wicked (1954). UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie (2024) Interview for Studiocanal Blu-ray/DVD release of No Trees in the Street (1959). UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie (2024) British Tenebrose? Shady Ladies of Postwar British Cinema. In: Le Tenebrose: Figure di femme fatale nel cinema e nei media europei fra mito e contemporaneità. Edizioni ETS. ISBN 9788846769534

Williams, Melanie (2024) Essay for Hammer bluray release of 36 Hours (1953). UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie and Bailey, Matthew (2024) Essay for Indicator bluray release of Left, Right and Centre (1959). UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie and Leggott, James (2024) Commentary for Eureka Blu-ray/DVD release of Juggernaut (1974). UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie (2023) Erotic Vagrancy: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor biography revels in scandal and excess of Hollywood glamour couple. In: UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie (2023) A Taste of Honey. BFI Film Classics . Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781839021558

Williams, Melanie (2023) Interview for Studiocanal Bluray/DVD release of Women of Twilight (1952). Studiocanal.

Williams, Melanie (2022) Interview for Criterion Bluray/DVD release of Summertime (1955). Criterion.

Williams, Melanie (2022) Essay for Network bluray release of The Sandwich Man (1966). Network.

Williams, Melanie (2021) 'Downhill racer: Framed' essay for Indicator Bluray Columbia Noir 2 boxset. Indicator.

Williams, Melanie (2021) 'Is it a crime to want to be remembered?' essay for Indicator Bluray release of The Chalk Garden (1964). Indicator.

Williams, Melanie (2021) 'Secret lives of un-swinging London' essay for Network Bluray release of A Touch of Love (1969). Network.

Williams, Melanie (2021) 'Happy ever after?' essay for Network bluray release of Young Wives' Tale (1951). Network.

Williams, Melanie (2021) 'A different train of events' essay for Network Bluray release of Brief Encounter (1974). Network.

Williams, Melanie (2021) 'Sixties shorts: the abbreviated comedy films of Bob Kellett' essay for Network Bluray release of Futtocks End (1969). Network.

Williams, Melanie and Botting, Jo (2021) Commentary for Via Vision Bluray/DVD release of Alfie (1966). Via Vision.

Williams, Melanie (2020) Her Word Was Her Bond:Johanna Harwood, Bond’s First Woman Screenwriter. In: From Blofeld to Moneypenny. Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender . Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., pp. 117-127. ISBN 978-1-83867-163-1

Williams, Melanie (2020) The hidden history of women's filmmaking in Britain. The Conversation.

Clayton, Stephanie, Johnston, Keith M and Williams, Melanie (2020) Invisible Innovators:Making Women Filmmakers Visible Across the UK Film Archives. UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie (2020) Girl on the edge: Rapture (1965). In: John Guillermin. Precocity Press. ISBN 978-1735292151

Williams, Melanie (2020) Interview for StudioCanal Bluray/DVD release of Yield to the Night (1956). Studiocanal.

Williams, Melanie (2020) Interview for Indicator Bluray Hammer boxset volume five. Indicator.

Farmer, Richard and Williams, Melanie (2019) Wrestling with Decadence: The Touchables (1968) and Swinging London Cinema of the 1960s. Volupté, 2 (2). pp. 95-121.

Williams, Melanie (2019) The 1950s and 1960s. In: A Companion to British and Irish Cinema. Wiley. ISBN 978-1118477519

Farmer, Richard, Mayne, Laura, Petrie, Duncan and Williams, Melanie (2019) Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474423113

Wakefield, Thirza and Williams, Melanie (2019) Commentary for Indicator Bluray release of The System (1964). Indicator.

Williams, Melanie (2019) Interview for StudioCanal Bluray/DVD release of The Holly and the Ivy (1954). UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie (2019) Essay for Indicator Bluray release of Take a Girl Like You (1970). Indicator.

Williams, Melanie (2019) Interview for Indicator Bluray release of Taste of Fear (1961). Indicator.

Williams, Melanie and Johnston, Keith M (2019) 'The past is not the past: rediscovering The Go-Between' essay in StudioCanal Bluray/DVD release of The Go-Between (1971). Studiocanal.

Williams, Melanie and Sinyard, Neil (2018) The Walls of Jericho. In: The Call of the Heart: John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-86196-736-0

Williams, Melanie (2018) Interview for StudioCanal Bluray/DVD release of Ice Cold in Alex (1958). Studiocanal.

Williams, Melanie (2018) Interview for Indicator Bluray Hammer boxset volume two. Indicator.

Williams, Melanie (2018) 'Girl with Green Eyes' and 'Creating the Woodfall Look' essays in BFI DVD boxset Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema. UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie and Wakefield, Thirza (2018) Commentary for Indicator Bluray release of Charlie Bubbles (1968). Indicator.

Williams, Melanie (2017) Female Stars of British Cinema:The Women in Question. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474405638

Williams, Melanie (2017) 'You see these claws?' essay for Indicator Bluray release of The Pumpkin Eater (1964). Indicator.

Mantziari, Despoina, Tasker, Yvonne and Williams, Melanie (2016) Editors' Introduction: Activism, Agency, and Authorship: Exploring Women's Film History. Feminist Media Histories, 2 (2). pp. 1-5. ISSN 2373-7492

Williams, Melanie (2016) The Girl You Don't See: Julie Harris and the Costume Designer in British Cinema. Feminist Media Histories, 2 (2). pp. 71-106. ISSN 2373-7492

Williams, Melanie (2016) The girl you don’t see: Julie Harris and the costume designer in British cinema. Feminist Media Histories, 2 (2). pp. 71-106. ISSN 2373-7492

Williams, Melanie (2016) Interview for StudioCanal Bluray/DVD release of Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946). Studiocanal.

Williams, Melanie (2015) The Best Exotic Graceful Ager: Dame Judi Dench and Older Female Celebrity. In: Women, Celebity and Cultures of Ageing. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 146. ISBN 9781137495112

Williams, Melanie (2015) Lupino, Ida (1918–1995). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.

Williams, Melanie (2014) Robert Bolt. In: British Writers. British Writers Series . Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 9780684325019

Williams, Melanie (2014) David Lean. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-7385-4

Williams, Melanie (2014) Interview for StudioCanal Bluray/DVD release of The Belles of St Trinian (1954). Studiocanal.

Williams, Melanie (2013) The Continuity Girl: Ice in the Middle of Fire. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10 (3). pp. 603-617. ISSN 1743-4521

Williams, Melanie (2013) Balcon, Jill Angela Henriette (1925–2009). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.

Williams, Melanie (2013) Richardson, Natasha Jane (1963–2009). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.

Fradley, Martin, Godfrey, Sarah and Williams, Melanie (2013) Shane’s World: Introduction. In: Shane Meadows: Critical Essays. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Fradley, Martin, Godfrey, Sarah and Williams, Melanie (2013) Shane Meadows: Introduction. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10 (4). pp. 823-828. ISSN 1743-4521

Williams, Melanie (2013) Remembering ‘the poor soul walking in the rain’: Audience responses to a thwarted makeover in 'Woman in a Dressing Gown'. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10 (4). pp. 709-726. ISSN 1743-4521

Williams, Melanie (2013) Interview for StudioCanal Bluray/DVD release of Accident (1967). Studiocanal.

FitzGerald, Louise and Williams, Melanie (2012) Facing our Waterloo: evaluating Mamma Mia! The Movie. In: Mamma Mia! The Movie: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon. I B Tauris. ISBN 9781848859418

Williams, Melanie (2012) Mamma Mia!'s female authorship. In: Mamma Mia! The Movie: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon. I B Tauris. ISBN 9781848859418

Williams, Melanie (2012) 'Women in the British film industry', 'The Seventh Veil', 'Bhaji on the Beach' and 'Fish Tank'. In: Directory of World Cinema: Britain. Directory of World Cinema Series (14). Intellect. ISBN 978-1841505572

Williams, Melanie (2012) A Feminine Touch? Ealing's Women. In: Ealing Revisited. British Film Institute, London. ISBN 9781844575107

Williams, Melanie, Duguid, Mark, Freeman, Lee and Johnston, Keith M (2012) Introduction: Revisiting Ealing. In: Ealing Revisited. British Film Institute, London. ISBN 9781844575107

Williams, Melanie (2012) Dawn of the Kitchen Sink. Sight and Sound, 22 (8).

Williams, Melanie (2012) Interview for StudioCanal DVD release of Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957). UNSPECIFIED.

Williams, Melanie (2011) Entering the paradise of anomalies: Studying female character acting in British cinema. Screen, 52 (1). pp. 97-104. ISSN 1460-2474

Williams, Melanie and Wright, Ellen (2011) Betty Grable: an American icon in wartime Britain. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 31 (4). pp. 543-559. ISSN 0143-9685

Williams, Melanie and Newland, Paul (2010) Staccato and wrenchingly modern: reflections of the 1970s stardom of Glenda Jackson. In: Don't Look Now? British Cinema in the 1970s. Intellect Press.

Williams, Melanie (2009) Twilight women of 1950s British cinema. In: The British Cinema Book,. British Film Institute, London. ISBN 9781844572755

Williams, Melanie (2009) Prisoners of Gender: Women in the Films of J. Lee Thompson: A new approach to British cinema of the 1950s. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. ISBN 9783639116946

Williams, Melanie (2009) British Women's Cinema. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415466974

Williams, Melanie (2009) A Girl Alone in a Man's World: Ice Cold in Alex (1958) and the place of women in the 1950s British war film cycle. Feminist Media Studies, 9 (1). pp. 95-108. ISSN 1471-5902

Williams, Melanie and Bell, Melanie (2009) The hour of the cuckoo: reclaiming the British women's film. In: British Women's Cinema. Routledge, London, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9780415466974

Williams, Melanie (2008) ‘Brief Encounter’, ‘The Wicked Lady’ and ‘A Hard Day’s Night’. In: 50 Key British Films. Routledge.

Williams, Melanie (2007) The creative producer: Frank Godwin. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 4 (1). pp. 140-149. ISSN 1755-1714

Williams, Melanie (2006) "The most explosive object to hit Britain since the V2!": The British films of Hardy Kruger and Anglo-German Relations in the 1950s. Cinema Journal, 46 (1). pp. 85-107.

Williams, Melanie (2005) Julie Christie: Honey-Glow Girl. Sight and Sound, 15 (12). p. 36.

Williams, Melanie (2005) "I'm not a lady!”: Tiger Bay and transitional girlhood in British cinema on the cusp of the 1960s. Screen, 46 (3). pp. 361-372. ISSN 1460-2474

Williams, Melanie (2005) '‘No Love for Johnnie’'. In: 24 Frames: The Cinema of Britain and Ireland. Wallflower. ISBN 978-1904764380

Williams, Melanie (2003) ''‘Housewives’ choice’: Woman in a Dressing Gown'' and ''Yield to the Night’'. In: British Cinema of the Fifties. Manchester University Press.

Williams, Melanie (2002) "Light on a dark lovely": Yvonne Mitchell and stardom in British cinema. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 19 (1). pp. 31-41. ISSN 1543-5326

Williams, Melanie (2002) Women in prison and women in dressing gowns: rediscovering the 1950s films of J. Lee Thompson. Journal of Gender Studies, 11 (1). pp. 5-15. ISSN 1465-3869

Williams, Melanie (2002) Michael Winterbottom and the unpopular British cinema. Journal of Popular British Cinema, 5.