{"id":2435,"date":"2020-03-04T11:47:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T11:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2020-03-04T11:47:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T11:47:53","slug":"melodrama-screening-and-discussion-wednesday-11th-of-march-5-7pm-jarman-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2020\/03\/04\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-wednesday-11th-of-march-5-7pm-jarman-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodrama Screening and Discussion, Wednesday 11th of March, 5-7pm, Jarman 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All are very welcome to join us for the fifth of this term\u2019s melodrama screening and discussion sessions. We will be showing<em> Tiger in the Smoke<\/em> (1956, Roy Ward Baker, 95 mins) on Wednesday the 11<sup>th<\/sup> of March, 5-7pm, Jarman 6.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2020\/03\/tiger-in-the-smoke-1956-tile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2436\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2020\/03\/tiger-in-the-smoke-1956-tile-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"536\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The film is based on Margery Allingham\u2019s 1952 novel &#8211; the 14<sup>th<\/sup> in her series of books featuring enigmatic detective Albert Campion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The review from the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> December 1956 issue of UK fan magazine <em>Picturegoer <\/em>helpfully outlines the film\u2019s plot and asks some insightful questions:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201ca pretty war widow, movingly played by Muriel Pavlow, is led to believe that her war-hero husband is still alive. It turns out to be a hoax. Why? Who is the man masquerading as her dead husband? What is the secret? And who is the man, the killer, masterminding the whole operation?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Picturegoer<\/em> further describes the film as possessing a \u2018nerve-wracking grip\u2019 and \u2018creepily sustained\u2019 tension (p. 16).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This fits with fits with US trade paper <em>Variety\u2019s <\/em>designation of the film as a &#8216;thriller&#8217; (5<sup>th<\/sup> December 1956, p. 24). The publication\u2019s review comments on how the \u2018fog laden\u2019 London city streets setting stresses \u2018mystery and suspense\u2019 and the performance of Pavlow conveys tension and anxiety. The film\u2019s plot, its fogbound atmosphere, and Pavlow\u2019s suffering woman, can all be usefully connected to our interest in melodrama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\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 fifth of this term\u2019s melodrama screening and discussion sessions. We will be showing Tiger in the Smoke (1956, Roy Ward Baker, 95 mins) on Wednesday the 11th of March, 5-7pm, Jarman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2020\/03\/04\/melodrama-screening-and-discussion-wednesday-11th-of-march-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":[217674,217696,217681,20536,217584,177907,100185,100154,50651,217673,217672,50861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435"}],"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=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}