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Kathleen Telling

Secret Scripture’s Sebastian Barry on the journey from Dublin to Hollywood

December 7, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

Sebastian Barry

Dublin-born author Sebastian Barry has received high praise for his novels, poetry, and plays alike. The mastermind behind a repertoire of over 20 published works, Barry weaves together the onward flow of modern Irish history, allusions to family folktales, and colorful characters with graceful sympathy. His 2008 novel, The Secret Scripture, is no exception to this stylistic triad. [Read more…] about Secret Scripture’s Sebastian Barry on the journey from Dublin to Hollywood

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Film Tagged With: family lore, Film, Jim Sheridan, Roseanne McNulty, Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

This is not a film: Ransom Center screens Ross Lipman’s NOTFILM

May 26, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

The Ransom Center presents a screening of Ross Lipman’s Notfilm, an experimental “kino-essay” charting the development and production of Samuel Beckett’s ambitious and enigmatic 1965 silent film project, Film, directed by Alan Schneider and starring silent-film actor Buster Keaton. [Read more…] about This is not a film: Ransom Center screens Ross Lipman’s NOTFILM

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Alan Schneider, Barney Rossett, Buster Keaton, documentary, experimental film, Film, film essay, kino-essay, Mihaly Vig, NOTFILM, Ross Lipman, Samuel Beckett, silent film, summer film series

Summer Film Series kicks off with Film and Not Film

May 18, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

The Ransom Center presents its Summer Film Series, beginning Thursday, June 16, with a showing of FILM (1965) followed by NOTFILM (2015). [Read more…] about Summer Film Series kicks off with Film and Not Film

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Alan Schneider, Buster Keaton, Film, Frida, Frida Kahlo, Julie Taymor, NOTFILM, Salma Hayek, Samuel Beckett, Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, short films, Vaudeville and Vitaphone, Warner Brothers

Listening closely to the Ezra Pound radio controversy

May 9, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

[Read more…] about Listening closely to the Ezra Pound radio controversy

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: 2016-2017 fellowships, authorship, Ezra Pound, Fellowships, France, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Norway, postwar, radio controversy, treason, treason trials, Tristan Tzara, U.K., U.S., World War II

Incoming fellow Muriel Willi to investigate historic Swiss photography exhibition

May 9, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

[Read more…] about Incoming fellow Muriel Willi to investigate historic Swiss photography exhibition

Filed Under: Photography, Research + Teaching Tagged With: 2016-2017 fellowships, Fellowships, Helmut Gernsheim, Lucerne, photography historian, Switzerland, World Exhibition of Photography 1952

Beyond the steel center: Incoming fellow Leslie A. Przybylek to research film industry’s impact on Western Pennsylvania

May 9, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

[Read more…] about Beyond the steel center: Incoming fellow Leslie A. Przybylek to research film industry’s impact on Western Pennsylvania

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: 2016-2017 fellowships, David O. Selznick, early film industry, Edwin S. Porter, Fellowships, Film, film industry, Heinz History Center, Lewis Selznick, Mercantile Library, Myron Selznick, Peter Matthiessen, Pittsburgh, Robert De Niro, Southwest Regional Archives, The Deer Hunter, Warner Brothers, western Pennsylvania

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