{"id":1241,"date":"2014-11-17T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2014-11-17T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:20:53","slug":"melodrama-screening-and-discussion-24th-of-november-jarman-7-5-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2014\/11\/17\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-24th-of-november-jarman-7-5-7pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodrama Screening and Discussion, 24th of November, Jarman 7, 5-7pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All are very welcome to join us for the\u00a0fourth of this term\u2019s screenings, which will take place on the\u00a024th of November, Jarman 7, 5-7pm. We will be\u00a0showing\u00a0<em>In This Our Life\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(1942,\u00a0John Huston,\u00a097 mins).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ann-Marie has very kindly provided the following introduction:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>In This Our Life<\/em> (John Huston, 1942) stars Bette Davis and proves she is best when she is being bad. Davis stars as Stanley Timberlake a woman that is never satisfied and will use any man she can to stay on top. Consumed by jealousy and greed Stanley leaves her fianc\u00e9e and steals her sister\u2019s husband! Stanley\u2019s selfish ways spell disaster and death in every turn in this melodrama filled with tangled love affairs and seedy incestuous temptations!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/11\/In-This-Our-Life.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1242\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/11\/In-This-Our-Life.jpg\" alt=\"In This Our Life (1942)\" width=\"850\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/11\/In-This-Our-Life.jpg 850w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/11\/In-This-Our-Life-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2014\/11\/In-This-Our-Life-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Before the shooting of this film commenced Davis\u2019 husband, Farney, had become seriously ill. Despite the studio\u2019s request to stay for costume fittings Davis flew to Minneapolis to see her husband. On her journey Davis had been told by a studio representative that her husband was recovering, but Bette knew better. Once she arrived at Minneapolis her husband was in intensive care and she was furious at Jack Warner for lying to her. Soon her husband became better and told Davis to return to L.A. However, a mix of worry and anger did not leave Davis, and it has been suggested by James Spada that her performance has a \u2018fevered manner\u2019 (Spada, 1993, p. 259) due to her \u2018frazzled state\u2019 (p. 259). Bette is let loose in this film to stomp and twitch wildly, perhaps the most in any of her films to date. After all, it is this film that claimed: \u2018Nobody\u2019s as good as Bette when she\u2019s bad!\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Do join us, if you can, for all the above!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are very welcome to join us for the\u00a0fourth of this term\u2019s screenings, which will take place on the\u00a024th of November, Jarman 7, 5-7pm. We will be\u00a0showing\u00a0In This Our Life\u00a0\u00a0(1942,\u00a0John Huston,\u00a097 mins). &nbsp; Ann-Marie has very kindly provided the following &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2014\/11\/17\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-24th-of-november-jarman-7-5-7pm\/\">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":[50575],"tags":[50795,50812,100099,50833,20536,100154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"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=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}