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A TASTE OF HONEY - MELANIE WILLIAMS KARTONIERT ...

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.

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