{"id":2252,"date":"2019-03-26T12:21:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2019-03-26T12:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:22:30","slug":"melodrama-screening-and-discussion-session-wednesday-3rd-of-april-5-7pm-jarman-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2019\/03\/26\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-session-wednesday-3rd-of-april-5-7pm-jarman-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodrama Screening and Discussion, Wednesday 3rd of April, 5-7pm, Jarman 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All are very welcome to join us for the last melodrama screening session of the term. We will be screening <em>Doctor in the House<\/em> (1954, Ralph Thomas, 92 mins) and\/or <em>Doctor at Sea<\/em> (1955, Ralph Thomas, 93 mins) on Wednesday the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> of April, 5-7pm, Jarman 6.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2019\/01\/cast-a-dark-doctor-at-sea-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2216\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2019\/01\/cast-a-dark-doctor-at-sea-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Including films from the popular \u2018Doctor\u2019 comedy series in our season of Dirk Bogarde melodramas may seem an odd choice. While it would be a stretch to describe the films as melodrama, they are hugely significant to Bogarde\u2019s screen image. Bogarde appears as Simon Sparrow, a medical student in the first instalment, but then a qualified doctor who develops and climbs the career leader as the series progresses \u2013 he appears in 4 of the 5 films made between 1954 and 1963 (in 1954, 1955, 1957 and 1963).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As well as the cumulative effect of Bogarde appearing in several films, the series, especially the first film, was hugely popular. The BFI\u2019s list of the top 100 films at the UK box office (adjusted for inflation) places <em>Doctor in the House<\/em> at no. 36, with an estimated audience of 12.2 million, roughly a quarter of the UK population at the time. Bogarde had previously been listed on the trade paper <em>Motion Picture Herald\u2019s <\/em>survey of the stars which exhibitors through brought in audiences at no.5 (in 1953). But Bogarde ranked higher during the 50s each year he appeared in a Doctor film: no. 2 in 1954, no. 1 in 1955, before dipping to no. 3 in a non-Doctor year, back up to no. 1 in 1957.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The \u2018Doctor\u2019 films therefore provided audiences with an alternative to some of Bogarde\u2019s darker or more challenging roles which we have screened \u2013 such as <em>Cast a Dark Shadow<\/em> (1955), <em>Libel <\/em>(1959), <em>Victim<\/em> (1961), <em>The Singer Not the Song<\/em> (1961). While the Doctor films have garnered less critical attention, they are arguably more central to Bogarde\u2019s screen image, and especially worthy of our attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Do join us for these enjoyable films if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are very welcome to join us for the last melodrama screening session of the term. We will be screening Doctor in the House (1954, Ralph Thomas, 92 mins) and\/or Doctor at Sea (1955, Ralph Thomas, 93 mins) on Wednesday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2019\/03\/26\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-session-wednesday-3rd-of-april-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":[50738,92845,211471,177905,211554,217568,177992,20536,100308,211497,211445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252"}],"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=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}