July 8, 2010, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmMaking Movies Film Series: "Detour" The Making Movies Film Series runs throughout the summer and features films that are highlighted in the Making Movies exhibition. Tonight, the Ransom Center will screen Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945), starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. Savage’s archive is housed at the Ransom Center. Kent Adamson, who has written… read more
July 5, 2010, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsRemembering P. T. Barnum’s pre-circus career on his birthday July 5, 2010 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum, famed circus showman, museum proprietor, lecturer, author, and one-time mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Barnum loved that his birthday followed the July 4 holiday, and in his first autobiography, The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written… read more
June 29, 2010, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmCostumes reveal character revelations As the Making Movies exhibition demonstrates, a costume can reveal much about a film character. For example, a character’s social and economic class can be represented through the style and quality of her or his clothes, shoes, and jewelry, and whether those clothes are clean and fresh or tattered and… read more
