{"id":149,"date":"2013-02-13T08:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T08:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=149"},"modified":"2013-02-13T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T08:22:51","slug":"melodrama-screening-and-discussion-20th-february-jarman-7-5-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2013\/02\/13\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-20th-february-jarman-7-5-7pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodrama Screening and Discussion, 20th February, Jarman 7, 5-7pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>All are welcome to attend the\u00a0third of this term\u2019s melodrama discussion and screening sessions which will take place on the\u00a020th of February in Jarman 7, from 5pm to 7 pm.<\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>We will be showing Lies&#8217; film choice: <em>The Divorcee<\/em> (Robert Z. Leonard, 1930) 83 mins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2013\/02\/The-Divorcee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-150\" alt=\"The Divorcee\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2013\/02\/The-Divorcee-300x239.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2013\/02\/The-Divorcee-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2013\/02\/The-Divorcee-375x300.jpg 375w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2013\/02\/The-Divorcee.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based on Ursula Parrott\u2019s autobiographical novel <i>Ex-Wife <\/i>(which was so controversial its title was deliberately not featured in the film\u2019s credits),<i>The Divorc\u00e9e<\/i> helped redefine the concept of the \u201cwoman\u2019s film\u201d in the pre-Code era. Starring Norma Shearer in a role she would reprise in a number of similar movies, it tells the story of a young, married woman who becomes a divorc\u00e9e when she decides to test the \u201csingle standard\u201d &#8211; and finds it lacking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are welcome to attend the\u00a0third of this term\u2019s melodrama discussion and screening sessions which will take place on the\u00a020th of February in Jarman 7, from 5pm to 7 pm. We will be showing Lies&#8217; film choice: The Divorcee (Robert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2013\/02\/13\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-20th-february-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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}