Melanie Williams

‘A rule of mine is this’, said William Goldman in 1983, ‘there are always three hot directors and one of them is always David Lean.’ One of the best known and most admired of British film makers, David Lean had a directorial career that spanned five decades and encompassed everything from the intimate black-and-white romance of Brief Encounter (1945) to the spectacular Technicolor epic of Lawrence of Arabia (1962). This book offers comprehensive coverage of every feature film directed by Lean, yielding new insights on the established classics of his career as well as its lesser-known treasures. Its analysis prioritises questions of gender and emphasises the often-overlooked but highly significant recurrence of female-centred narratives throughout Lean’s career. Drawing extensively on archival historical materials while also presenting nuanced close readings of individual films, David Lean offers a fascinating and original account of the work of a remarkable British film maker.

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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Super Minds is back and is super charged! Alongside the super friends and the explorers, young learners make their way towards B1 over seven levels, solving mysteries along the way. The course is aligned with the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework and has a particular focus on developing critical and creative thinkers, capable of investigating Big Questions. Students learn to apply English to their lives outside the classroom, while developing the language and life skills they need to grow into confident, collaborative, responsible individuals. The course is brought out of the book and onto the screen by five videos per unit, featuring various entertaining characters, animations and documentary-style footage.

Super Minds is back and is super charged! Alongside the super friends and the explorers, young learners make their way towards B1 over seven levels, solving mysteries along the way. The course is aligned with the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework and has a particular focus on developing critical and creative thinkers, capable of investigating Big Questions. Students learn to apply English to their lives outside the classroom, while developing the language and life skills they need to grow into confident, collaborative, responsible individuals. The course is brought out of the book and onto the screen by five videos per unit, featuring various entertaining characters, animations and documentary-style footage.

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Super Minds is back and is super charged! Alongside the super friends and the explorers, young learners make their way towards B1 over seven levels, solving mysteries along the way. The course is aligned with the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework and has a particular focus on developing critical and creative thinkers, capable of investigating Big Questions. Students learn to apply English to their lives outside the classroom, while developing the language and life skills they need to grow into confident, collaborative, responsible individuals. The course is brought out of the book and onto the screen by five videos per unit, featuring various entertaining characters, animations and documentary-style footage.

Super Minds is back and is super charged! Alongside the super friends and the explorers, young learners make their way towards B1 over seven levels, solving mysteries along the way. The course is aligned with the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework and has a particular focus on developing critical and creative thinkers, capable of investigating Big Questions. Students learn to apply English to their lives outside the classroom, while developing the language and life skills they need to grow into confident, collaborative, responsible individuals. The course is brought out of the book and onto the screen by five videos per unit, featuring various entertaining characters, animations and documentary-style footage.

PREPARE 2nd edition Level 3 combines 'teen-appeal' topics with gradual preparation towards the revised 2020 A2 Key for Schools exam. Students will enjoy interactive, personalised lessons with themes and resources relevant to their interests. The new Life Skills approach inspires learners to expand their horizons and knowledge and includes insights from The Cambridge Life Competencies Framework. Teachers can relax knowing every unit drives students towards exam success and that the course is creating confident English users with the enhanced vocabulary and grammar syllabus. Access the online Student's eBook with interactive audio and video on Cambridge One.

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