{"id":312,"date":"2013-11-20T16:42:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/?page_id=312"},"modified":"2025-02-10T08:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T08:20:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/?page_id=312","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This website consists mainly of talks and reviews I have given since retiring as Professor and Head of Film Studies in 2009. The subjects are predominantly film-related, though I also hope to include occasional pieces on other passions of mine, such as literature and music. The primary aim is to entertain and\/or inform, and I hope the material included is accessible to anyone (academic or otherwise) with a general broad interest in the topics.<\/p>\n<p>I am indebted for the website\u2019s existence to Dr David Rolinson of Stirling University, a brilliant former research student and teaching colleague of mine, and a steadfast friend. He has been instrumental in setting it all up and I am deeply grateful for his expertise, diligence and support.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Sinyard<br \/>\nNovember 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website consists mainly of talks and reviews I have given since retiring as Professor and Head of Film Studies in 2009. The subjects are predominantly film-related, though I also hope to include occasional pieces on other passions of mine, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/?page_id=312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-312","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/312\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilsinyard.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}