{"id":2117,"date":"2018-12-06T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2018-12-06T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:21:09","slug":"melodrama-screening-and-discussion-monday-10th-of-december-5-7pm-jarman-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2018\/12\/06\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-monday-10th-of-december-5-7pm-jarman-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodrama Screening and Discussion, Monday 10th of December, 5-7pm, Jarman 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

All are very welcome to join us for the last meeting of the term. We will be screening I Could Go On Singing<\/em> (1963, Ronald Neame, 99 mins) on Monday the 10th of December, 5-7pm, in Jarman 6.<\/p>\n

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The film was not assigned the label ‘melodrama’ by the American industry magazine Box Office<\/em>, but is referred to as a ‘drama with songs’ (18th March, 1963). This allows us\u00a0 to consider an important element of melodrama we have not yet considered in relation to Dirk Bogarde melodramas – music.<\/p>\n

It is unsurprising that Box Office’s<\/em> main focus in advice to cinemas as to how to advertise the film in the US (and probably the UK) is its female lead – singing mega-star Judy Garland – rather than Bogarde, who plays her British ex-husband. The magazine’s ‘exploitips’ says that the big selling angle is indeed the music, with Garland performing songs in a film for the first time since A Star is Born<\/em> (1954).<\/p>\n

Catchlines (short sentences which Box Office<\/em> suggests can be used) refer to the music, but also outline a melodramatic performance style and plot: ‘Judy Garland, Singing, Laughing and Tearing Your Heart Out In a Great Drama with Songs Galore…She Had to Let Love Pass Her By as She Sang to her Public From the Lonely Stage.’<\/p>\n

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Do join us, if you can, for what is likely to be an emotional viewing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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