December 6, 2011, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Implicating History: Susan Meiselas and the Trafficking of Photographs about Nicaragua Erina Duganne, Assistant Professor of Art History at Texas State University, visited the Ransom Center on a Marlene Nathan Meyerson Photography Fellowship for a month during the summer of 2011 to review photographs by Susan Meiselas in the Magnum Photos collection. This research relates to her forthcoming book that… read more
November 30, 2011, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingScreenwriter Paul Schrader’s papers open for research In the late 1970s, screenwriter Paul Schrader began writing a script titled Born in the U.S.A., and he asked Bruce Springsteen to write a song for the film. The script sat on Springsteen’s table until one day, while working on a song called “Vietnam,” he noticed Schrader’s script, sang the… read more
November 10, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Analyzing the fight scenes from "Raging Bull" Leger Grindon is a professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of Knockout: the Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema (University Press of Mississippi, 2011), Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Conventions, History and Controversies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Shadows on… read more
