{"id":1011,"date":"2014-03-01T13:20:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T13:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2014-03-01T13:20:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T13:20:04","slug":"maternal-melodrama-symposium-3rd-of-june-glt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2014\/03\/01\/maternal-melodrama-symposium-3rd-of-june-glt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternal Melodrama Symposium 3rd of June, GLT 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Sarah<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Exciting news! We can confirm the date and location of the Melodrama Research Group&#8217;s first symposium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/03\/maternal-melodrama.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1036\" alt=\"maternal melodrama\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/03\/maternal-melodrama.png\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sponsored by CISFMI and KIASH, the Melodrama Research Group will host a Symposium on Maternal Melodrama during the\u00a03rd of June in GLT3.\u00a0While Maternal Melodrama is often associated with Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, and actresses such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwyck, recent academic work on this topic\u00a0has explored a new area. Sue Thornham\u2019s \u2018\u201dA HATRED SO INTENSE\u201d <i>We Need to Talk About Kevin<\/i>, Postfeminism and Women\u2019s Cinema\u2019 discusses the relevance of maternal melodrama to contemporary cinema,\u00a0prompting us to re-evaluate some tired assumptions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Symposium will be a great opportunity to debate maternal melodrama generally and to respond specifically to Thornham\u2019s argument. Her article appeared in the new journal <i>Sequence: Serial Studies in Media, Film and Music<\/i> 2.1, 2013. Unlike most journals, <i>Sequence<\/i> encourages a sequential approach to academic deliberations and its emphasis on a variety of forms for the submission of responses (the traditional written word, but also audio and video) will allow the Melodrama Research Group to engage more fully, and fruitfully, with the Digital Humanities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Group is delighted to welcome our special guests: Professor Pam Cook (University of Southampton) and Dr Catherine Grant (University of Sussex). Pam and Katie will present on video essays.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sue Thornham&#8217;s article: <a href=\"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/sequence2\/archive\/sequence-2-1\/\">http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/sequence2\/archive\/sequence-2-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Pam Cook&#8217;s University of Southampton page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/film\/about\/staff\/pc3.page\">http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/film\/about\/staff\/pc3.page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Katie Grant&#8217;s University of Sussex page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/profiles\/183852\">http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/profiles\/183852<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">More details, including a timetable and the titles of talks, will be posted here in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Sarah Exciting news! We can confirm the date and location of the Melodrama Research Group&#8217;s first symposium. Sponsored by CISFMI and KIASH, the Melodrama Research Group will host a Symposium on Maternal Melodrama during the\u00a03rd of June in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2014\/03\/01\/maternal-melodrama-symposium-3rd-of-june-glt-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[25582,50836,92915,100153,92919,92916,50839,92918],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}