August 10, 2011, Filed Under: ConservationGown of a different feather: Conservators investigate feathers on the burgundy gown from "Gone With The Wind" The burgundy ball gown Scarlett wears to Ashley’s birthday party in Gone With The Wind is meant to be provocative (“not modest or matronly,” Rhett snarls) yet glamorous. But when the gown arrived at the Ransom Center in the early 1980s, something wasn’t quite right. “It looked more like a… read more
August 9, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingQ and A: Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley speaks about legacy of Literary Modernist Critic Hugh Kenner Hugh Kenner, considered America’s foremost commentator on literary modernism, was unlike any other literary critic before or since. His scholarship ranged from Ezra Pound to geodisic math to animator Chuck Jones, and he personally knew the modernists about whom he wrote. Los Angeles Times critic Richard Eder once wrote: “Kenner… read more
August 3, 2011, Filed Under: ConservationConservators find best treatment for wedding veil from "Gone With The Wind" is no treatment Gone With The Wind is full of lessons about love, life, and loss. Almost 75 years later, Scarlett’s silk wedding veil has one more lesson. “At the end of our life, it is the end of our life. We are all organic material. When a costume has come to the… read more
August 2, 2011, Filed Under: Theatre + Performing Arts"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" collection donated to Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center has received a donation of a collection of materials from husband-wife duo actress Carlin Glynn and writer and director Peter Masterson relating to their careers and their work on the original Broadway production and film of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The collection consists of… read more
July 28, 2011, Filed Under: FilmRansom Center acquires archive of film director Nicholas Ray The Ransom Center has acquired the archive of film director Nicholas Ray (1911–1979), best known for his film Rebel Without a Cause. Spanning more than 35 years, materials in the collection include, but are not limited to, Ray’s work on They Live By Night (1949), In A Lonely Place (1950),… read more
July 27, 2011, Filed Under: AuthorsTwo Ransom Center authors long listed for 2011 Man Booker Prize Authors Julian Barnes and Sebastian Barry, both featured in the Ransom Center’s current exhibition Culture Unbound: Collecting in the Twenty-First Century, were selected for the long list of nominees for the Man Booker Prize. The Ransom Center holds the archives of Barnes and Barry. Barnes was nominated for his novel… read more
