December 1, 2017, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Take home a little bit of Mexico with vintage travel postcards Mid-twentieth-century travel materials aimed to depict Mexico as an exotic destination The Ransom Center’s current exhibition Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1945 showcases Mexican art immediately following the Mexican Revolution in 1920 to the 1940s when it entered the American mainstream.
October 12, 2017, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmClassical cinema’s Mexican revolution Dr. Charles Ramírez Berg is Joe M. Dealey, Sr. Professor in Media Studies in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films was named the Grand Prize winner of the 2016 University… read more
September 25, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingComing out of the archives Coming Out of the Archives is a selection of materials curated by students in my spring 2017 Queer Archives class. The materials can be seen in the Ransom Center’s Stories to Tell exhibition that features rotating highlights from the collections. [Editor’s note: the items are no longer on view, as… read more
