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Recently the British Film Institute\u00a0contacted the group regarding an exciting event about melodrama which they are currently organising. Screenings will take place at the National Film Theatre and talks at the BFI from April-June 2014. The BFI’s Jo Botting came to discuss the BFI’s plans and attended our most recent screening and discussion session.<\/p>\n
Questions the BFI’s melodrama event are raising chime very well with the group’s research concerns. As well as the thorny, and varied,\u00a0matter of definitions the relation between different mediums is one central to a medium which in its earliest days relied heavily on adaptations. The group is also interested in the similarities and differences between melodramas across the world, and throughout history.<\/p>\n
In order to come up with our own list of top 50 unmissable melodramas the research group split into four different sections and each was allocated a geographic area: Europe, Rest of World,\u00a0UK, US. This resulted in 225 titles.<\/p>\n
Below is the streamlined version which includes 26 from the US, 8 from the UK, 9 from Europe (Denmark, France, Italy, Spain)\u00a0and the remaining 7 from the rest of the world (China,India, Korea, Mexico). They range from 1920 to 2009.<\/p>\n
See the next post for the long (225 films!) list, and leave any thoughts (in either place or email me on sp458@kent.ac.uk<\/a>) about those that have been included and excluded.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Posted by Sarah Recently the British Film Institute\u00a0contacted the group regarding an exciting event about melodrama which they are currently organising. Screenings will take place at the National Film Theatre and talks at the BFI from April-June 2014. The BFI’s … Continue reading \n
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