{"id":1988,"date":"2018-08-27T08:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2018-08-27T08:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:38:52","slug":"the-bfis-dirk-bogarde-collection-of-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2018\/08\/27\/the-bfis-dirk-bogarde-collection-of-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"The BFI&#8217;s Dirk Bogarde Collection of Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As noted in the last post, the melodrama research group will be screening several of Dirk Bogarde&#8217;s films from the 1st of October. This is because I was recently lucky enough to access the British Film Institute&#8217;s Dirk Bogarde Collection of journals. These magazines were gifted to the BFI by the late actor&#8217;s estate and provide a fascinating insight into the reach of the star across different types of publications and countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2018\/08\/normma-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-photoplay-cover121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1989\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2018\/08\/normma-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-photoplay-cover121-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2018\/08\/normma-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-photoplay-cover121-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2018\/08\/normma-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-photoplay-cover121-768x296.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2018\/08\/normma-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-photoplay-cover121-1024x395.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2018\/08\/normma-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-photoplay-cover121-500x193.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2018\/08\/normma-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-photoplay-cover121.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Over the next few weeks, Lies is very kindly posting 8 blog posts I&#8217;ve written about my work on the collection, and Dirk, on the NoRMMA blog. You can find the first here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.normmanetwork.com\/introduction-the-dirk-bogarde-collection-project\/\">http:\/\/www.normmanetwork.com\/introduction-the-dirk-bogarde-collection-project\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be sharing some film-specific material from the collection in advance of each screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in the last post, the melodrama research group will be screening several of Dirk Bogarde&#8217;s films from the 1st of October. This is because I was recently lucky enough to access the British Film Institute&#8217;s Dirk Bogarde Collection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2018\/08\/27\/the-bfis-dirk-bogarde-collection-of-journals\/\">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":[32,124],"tags":[177905,100152,100153,100081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988"}],"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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}