Melanie Williams is a reader in film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. Her research focuses on British cinema, with published work including the monographs David Lean (Manchester University Press, 2014) and Prisoners of Gender: Women in the Films of J. Lee Thompson (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009) and the coedited collections Shane Meadows: Critical Essays (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), Ealing Revisited (British Film Institute, 2012), Mamma Mia! The Movie: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon (I. B. Tauris, 2012), and British Women's Cinema (Routledge, 2009).