Author Melanie Williams

Melanie Williams

Melanie Williams is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her books include A Taste of Honey: BFI Film Classics (2023), Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema (2019), Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question (2017), David Lean (2014), Ealing Revisited (2013), British Women’s Cinema (2009), and Prisoners of Gender: Women in the Films of J. Lee Thompson (2009). She is currently working on a monograph on Muriel Box for BFI Publishing.

Box, Muriel

Melanie Williams

August 2024

Great Directors

b. 22 September 1905, New Malden, United Kingdom d. 18 May 1991, Hendon, United Kingdom The future director Muriel Box’s fascination with the medium of film first came upon her during her childhood in the 191...