NoRMMA is very happy to announce that its members have been awarded £8,200 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to undertake its ‘Digitizing The War Illustrated’ project. (You can find out more about the National Lottery Heritage Fund on its website: https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/). This allows us to build on Public Engagement NoRMMA carried out between April and June 2017. Over the course…
Dirk Bogarde Beyond the Dirk Bogarde Collection
Today, we bring you the last of Dr Sarah Polley’s posts on the Dirk Bogarde Collection – thank you very much for this fascinating series, Sarah, and we all look forward to reading more of your work in the future! For those of you interested in Dirk Bogarde, please do also consider having a look at the Melodrama Research Group…
Dirk Bogarde coverage in the Dirk Bogarde collection
The previous post looked in detail at some aspects of the collection as a whole. I’d now like to briefly turn to some of the Bogarde-related content I found, especially UK fan magazines. As predicted in the 4th post of this series which outlined the categories I chose for my spreadsheet, I found various types of coverage. Some of these…
A summary of the magazines in the Dirk Bogarde collection
After completing my spreadsheet, I sent an edited version of it (removing the information specifically related to Bogarde to make the other data more legible) to the BFI. While most, though not all, of these magazine share something on Bogarde in common, it is worth giving an overview before turning to dates, countries/languages and other aspects in more detail. The…
Cataloguing the Dirk Bogarde collection
Our friends at the Melodrama Research Group are still in the midst of a series of Dirk Bogarde screenings – do have a look at the blog if you’re interested! In the meantime, here’s another update on the Dirk Bogarde research project, again by Dr Sarah Polley… The collection arrived and was installed in my study by the…
Pre-search: The spreadsheet
In this post I turn more specifically to the matter which prompted this series of posts: the cataloguing of the Dirk Bogarde Collection. I always like to start a project with a spreadsheet since this allows for data to be recorded systematically, legibly, and to be reorganised according to various categories if desired. It would also be the neatest may…
Pre-search: Dirk Bogarde in non-contemporaneous writing and the what (sources), why (the importance), and how (methodology) of star studies
I engaged in other pre-search before the Dirk Bogarde collection of magazines arrived. This involved investigating how much, and in what way, Bogarde appears in written work produced after his main period of stardom. This is not necessary for the cataloguing of the BFI’s collection of magazines and, since it is often retrospective, may in fact cover quite different ground…
Pre-search: Dirk Bogarde’s Life and Career
Before the Dirk Bogarde collection was delivered I engaged in a fair amount of ‘pre-search’. Part of this was refreshing my mind on, and expanding my knowledge of, Bogarde’s life and career. A look at his Wikipedia page was a good starting point, also providing avenues for me to follow, and references to access, at a later date. Other useful preliminary…
Introduction: The Dirk Bogarde Collection Project
INTRODUCTORY NOTE – Over the next few weeks, the NoRMMA blog will be hosting a series of posts focusing on archival materials relating to Dirk Bogarde. These archival materials were catalogued recently for the BFI by Dr Sarah Polley, one of our founding NoRMMA members – and she very kindly took the time to write up a series of eight blog posts about…
“You wouldn’t have these problems if you were a fallen woman!”: Female (Curtiz, 1933)
Our friends over at the Melodrama Research Group are continuing to explore pre-Code Hollywood cinema this term, starting with a screening of Female this coming Tuesday. Because of this, we had a look at what the fan magazines had to say about this film and about its central star, Ruth Chatterton. Three reviews, from Photoplay, Picture Play and Motion Picture, took quite different stances…