{"id":2017,"date":"2018-10-06T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T08:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2018-10-06T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T08:49:11","slug":"melodrama-screening-and-discussion-15th-of-october-5-7pm-jarman-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2018\/10\/06\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-15th-of-october-5-7pm-jarman-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodrama Screening and Discussion, 15th of October, 5-7pm, Jarman 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All are very welcome to join us for our next melodrama screening, on Monday the 15th of October, 5-7pm, in Jarman 6. We will be showing <em>Hunted<\/em> (1952, Charles Crichton, 84 mins).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2018\/10\/hunted-poster-untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2020\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2018\/10\/hunted-poster-untitled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This film, also known as\u00a0<em>The Stranger In Between, <\/em>stars Dirk Bogarde as Chris Lloyd, a desperate man who has killed his wife&#8217;s (Elizabeth Sellars&#8217;) lover. After being discovered in a bombed out house by a boy, Robbie (Jon Whitely), Chris has to take the young witness with him as he goes on the run&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In contrast to <em>Esther Waters&#8217;<\/em> focus on the suffering, though resilient, heroine, <em>Hunted<\/em> focuses on Bogarde&#8217;s tortured male criminal. The film contains aspects of the male melodrama, which Steve Neale relates to the Hollywood director Raoul Walsh&#8217;s use of &#8216;mystery, violence, chase&#8217; (<em>Genre and Hollywood<\/em>, 2000).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To reinforce such a categorisation, trade paper\u00a0<em>Variety&#8217;s<\/em> review called the film a &#8216;man-hunt meller&#8217; (i.e. melodrama) (5th March, 1952, p. 6). Furthermore, fan magazine <em>Picturegoer&#8217;s <\/em>review commented on the last of the three aspect Walsh favoured: it describes the film as an &#8216;exciting chase&#8217; (15 March, 1952, p. 16).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Do join us, if you can, for the second in our season of Dirk Bogarde melodramas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are very welcome to join us for our next melodrama screening, on Monday the 15th of October, 5-7pm, in Jarman 6. We will be showing Hunted (1952, Charles Crichton, 84 mins). This film, also known as\u00a0The Stranger In Between, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2018\/10\/06\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-15th-of-october-5-7pm-jarman-6\/\">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":[100348,177937,50595,177907,177938,100154,50596,50861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017"}],"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=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}