{"id":2358,"date":"2020-01-22T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2020-01-22T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:24:35","slug":"melodrama-screening-and-discussion-wednesday-29th-january-5-7pm-jarman-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2020\/01\/22\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-wednesday-29th-january-5-7pm-jarman-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodrama Screening and Discussion, Wednesday 29th January, 5-7pm, Jarman 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All are very welcome to join us for the second of this term\u2019s melodrama screenings. We will be showing <em>Busman\u2019s Honeymoon<\/em> (1940, Arthur B Woods, 99 mins) on Wednesday the 29<sup>th<\/sup> of January, 5-7pm, in Jarman 6.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2020\/01\/HauntedHoneymoonlobby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2360\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2020\/01\/HauntedHoneymoonlobby-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2020\/01\/HauntedHoneymoonlobby-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2020\/01\/HauntedHoneymoonlobby-395x300.jpg 395w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2020\/01\/HauntedHoneymoonlobby.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This continues our focus on film adaptations of detective novels written by women. <em>Busman\u2019s Honeymoon<\/em> is based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Dorothy L Sayers. It was the last in her 11 book series to feature her popular amateur gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The film, which starred the Americans Robert Montgomery as the English sleuth and Constance Cummings as his Oxford educated mystery novelist wife, Harriet Vane, was released as <em>Haunted Honeymoon<\/em> in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Melodrama is less obvious in both the novel and the film than was the case for last time\u2019s screening, <em>Young and Innocent<\/em>, whose man on the run theme related to male melodrama. Sayers\u2019 subtitle to the book, \u2018a love story with detective interruptions\u2019, suggests it belongs to both the romantic and detective genres, but downplays its\u00a0 mystery elements. The US lobby card pictured above suggests a more even division as the main couple, in wedding gear, is drawn straddling a gun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Do join us if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are very welcome to join us for the second of this term\u2019s melodrama screenings. We will be showing Busman\u2019s Honeymoon (1940, Arthur B Woods, 99 mins) on Wednesday the 29th of January, 5-7pm, in Jarman 6. This continues our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2020\/01\/22\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-wednesday-29th-january-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":[217660,217664,217684,217686,217662,217687,217659,217663,20536,217685,100154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358"}],"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=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}