Melanie Williams
@britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Norwich based film and media prof - for the time being.
Books on A Taste of Honey, 1960s, stardom, David Lean, Ealing, J. Lee Thompson, etc. Currently working on ace director Muriel Box. Opinions very much my own.
Books on A Taste of Honey, 1960s, stardom, David Lean, Ealing, J. Lee Thompson, etc. Currently working on ace director Muriel Box. Opinions very much my own.
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Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.
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Lots of reasons to boycott Spotify, but running ice ads is especially sinister. Screw them!
Reports of ICE ads on #Spotify were noted in early October. People began calling for boycotts immediately.
Now, nearly a month later Spotify is seeing major losses.
And we can do ever BETTER. 👏👏👏
#BoycottSpotify
Now, nearly a month later Spotify is seeing major losses.
And we can do ever BETTER. 👏👏👏
#BoycottSpotify
November 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lots of reasons to boycott Spotify, but running ice ads is especially sinister. Screw them!
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Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
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If you think there’s nothing new to say about Wuthering Heights, you’d be wrong. #booksky 📚
Hallowe'en special up now. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, with guests Andrew Male and Laura Varnam in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. 🌬️🎃🧟 @andrewmale.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0Zde...
open.spotify.com/episode/0Zde...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
open.spotify.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you think there’s nothing new to say about Wuthering Heights, you’d be wrong. #booksky 📚
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I’m fascinated with how films fail and after reading this I really want to watch Alfred the Great.
This article just published, open access - come for the David Hemmings personality coat-hangers, stay for my searingly insightful film promotion analysis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘A Difficult Film to Sell and a Difficult Film to Appreciate’: MGM’s Alfred the Great (1969) and the Challenges of Promoting Historical Epic in the Late-1960s
MGM’s 1969 epic royal biopic Alfred the Great presents an illuminating case study for investigating film promotion, especially how to promote historical film, during the intense industrial and cult...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m fascinated with how films fail and after reading this I really want to watch Alfred the Great.
and a few from me too! (including the William Castle cover story)
Take advantage of this special offer and you get TWO articles written by me.
A special limited offer! Take a look at the magazine they're all talking about! The #TPTV 'proper' mag, perfect for all supporters of film and TV history, INTERMISSION Magazine. Take issues 16, 17 & 18 for just £15! Every issue packed with nostalgia! buff.ly/GUhXihQ
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
and a few from me too! (including the William Castle cover story)
This article just published, open access - come for the David Hemmings personality coat-hangers, stay for my searingly insightful film promotion analysis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘A Difficult Film to Sell and a Difficult Film to Appreciate’: MGM’s Alfred the Great (1969) and the Challenges of Promoting Historical Epic in the Late-1960s
MGM’s 1969 epic royal biopic Alfred the Great presents an illuminating case study for investigating film promotion, especially how to promote historical film, during the intense industrial and cult...
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This article just published, open access - come for the David Hemmings personality coat-hangers, stay for my searingly insightful film promotion analysis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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They made a date... 🗡️ with murder!
📽️ COVER GIRL KILLER (1959) 3:15pm stars #HarryHCorbett #FelicityYoung #SpencerTeakle crime drama #TPTVsubtitles
📽️ COVER GIRL KILLER (1959) 3:15pm stars #HarryHCorbett #FelicityYoung #SpencerTeakle crime drama #TPTVsubtitles
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
They made a date... 🗡️ with murder!
📽️ COVER GIRL KILLER (1959) 3:15pm stars #HarryHCorbett #FelicityYoung #SpencerTeakle crime drama #TPTVsubtitles
📽️ COVER GIRL KILLER (1959) 3:15pm stars #HarryHCorbett #FelicityYoung #SpencerTeakle crime drama #TPTVsubtitles
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Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own
October 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own
FUCK YEAH! cstonline.net/defending-th...
DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED
I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…
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October 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
FUCK YEAH! cstonline.net/defending-th...
I am thrilled beyond compare! ❤️
More melodrama. I am so honoured to be on a panel with @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social talking about class in melodrama at the BFI Southbank study day on 15 November. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
October 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I am thrilled beyond compare! ❤️
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1908 in cinema
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
1908 in cinema
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why did the crab go to prison
crimes
crimes
August 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
why did the crab go to prison
crimes
crimes
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One of my favourite first watches of this year. Newton is terrific, playing a cuckold who embarks on an elaborate, extended scheme to murder his usurper. Better than De Palma’s Obsession (1976), and arguably superior to Visconti’s (1943) too…
Whose mind could know the secret?
Premiere: OBSESSION (1949) 10:05pm #RobertNewton #SallyGray #NauntonWayne noir thriller #TPTVsubtitles
Premiere: OBSESSION (1949) 10:05pm #RobertNewton #SallyGray #NauntonWayne noir thriller #TPTVsubtitles
October 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
One of my favourite first watches of this year. Newton is terrific, playing a cuckold who embarks on an elaborate, extended scheme to murder his usurper. Better than De Palma’s Obsession (1976), and arguably superior to Visconti’s (1943) too…
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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A story in three parts
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A story in three parts
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we're surrounded by media all the time.
How many hours do you spend looking at a screen each day?
Why? What is it that draws you in and keeps you there?
Don't you think it might be important for someone to research that stuff?
How many hours do you spend looking at a screen each day?
Why? What is it that draws you in and keeps you there?
Don't you think it might be important for someone to research that stuff?
October 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
we're surrounded by media all the time.
How many hours do you spend looking at a screen each day?
Why? What is it that draws you in and keeps you there?
Don't you think it might be important for someone to research that stuff?
How many hours do you spend looking at a screen each day?
Why? What is it that draws you in and keeps you there?
Don't you think it might be important for someone to research that stuff?
Every now and then, a gif comes along that really speaks to you... www.tiktok.com/@tcm/video/7...
Monday anthem just dropped 🎶 #oldhollywood #harrybelafonte #filmtok
TikTok video by Turner Classic Movies
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October 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Every now and then, a gif comes along that really speaks to you... www.tiktok.com/@tcm/video/7...
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Contrasting headlines
October 8, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Contrasting headlines
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This stuff is so tiresome. In a world where hard skills like coding are getting replaced faster than they can be taught, it’s the soft skills that arts degrees teach you that remain valuable.
Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
October 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
This stuff is so tiresome. In a world where hard skills like coding are getting replaced faster than they can be taught, it’s the soft skills that arts degrees teach you that remain valuable.
Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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Passed a house with Christmas decorations up this morning.
October 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Passed a house with Christmas decorations up this morning.
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Miriam Kent joins me for a chat about Black Widow, a fun yet thought-provokingly challenging movie that was dogged by delays caused by everything from lockdown to boardroom politics and tedious men crying about 'woke', and has since been almost forgotten...
timworthington.org/2024/09/26/i...
timworthington.org/2024/09/26/i...
It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Black Widow With Miriam Kent
Miriam Kent joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Yelena Belova not quite managing to break her ‘eating stale biscuits’ conditioning in Black Widow.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Miriam Kent joins me for a chat about Black Widow, a fun yet thought-provokingly challenging movie that was dogged by delays caused by everything from lockdown to boardroom politics and tedious men crying about 'woke', and has since been almost forgotten...
timworthington.org/2024/09/26/i...
timworthington.org/2024/09/26/i...
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Absolutely delighted with this chat I had with @gracedent.bsky.social about Bagpuss. It took us both back to early childhood and I had no idea it was going to get so deep and profound. A truly great show and a great person to talk about it with.
timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...
timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Absolutely delighted with this chat I had with @gracedent.bsky.social about Bagpuss. It took us both back to early childhood and I had no idea it was going to get so deep and profound. A truly great show and a great person to talk about it with.
timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...
timworthington.org/2024/12/04/t...