{"id":519,"date":"2020-09-29T14:32:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/?p=519"},"modified":"2020-09-29T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:32:40","slug":"dr-john-wills-contributes-essay-to-us-national-film-preservation-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2020\/09\/29\/dr-john-wills-contributes-essay-to-us-national-film-preservation-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr John Wills contributes essay to US National Film Preservation Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Board also invites film scholars to write essays about the movies explaining their significance.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/people\/1478\/wills-john\">Dr John Wills<\/a>, Reader in American History and Culture and Director of the Centre for American Studies in the Division of the Arts and Humanities, recently provided such an essay on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/static\/programs\/national-film-preservation-board\/documents\/AllThatHeavenAllows.pdf\">the 1950\u2019s movie \u2018All That Heaven Allows\u2019<\/a>, a classic Douglas Sirk melodrama, to join other essays he\u2019s written for the Board.<\/p>\n<p>John related how, \u201cit\u2019s such a privilege to contribute to this scheme, as well as to get the chance to write about some truly classic movies!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/programs\/national-film-preservation-board\/film-registry\/index-of-essays\/\">film essay collection<\/a>\u00a0is available online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board also invites film scholars to write essays about the movies explaining their significance.\u00a0Dr John Wills, Reader in American History and Culture and Director &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2020\/09\/29\/dr-john-wills-contributes-essay-to-us-national-film-preservation-board\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34790,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}