November 24, 2009, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingFellow’s Find: Screenwriter Warren Skaaren What do Batman, Top Gun, and Beverly Hills Cop II have in common? All were rewritten by versatile screenwriter and “script doctor” Warren Skaaren. As a fellow at the Ransom Center last summer, Alison Macor, independent scholar and former film critic for The Austin Chronicle and the Austin American-Statesman, immersed… read more
November 17, 2009, Filed Under: Research + TeachingDarwin and Herschel: The Fossil Record of a Relationship 2009 marks the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his most famous work, On the Origin of Species. The Ransom Center owns several copies of the first edition, the most interesting being the one sent by Darwin to Sir John Herschel, a famous… read more
November 3, 2009, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingHearing Music in the David O. Selznick Collection Occupying almost 5,000 document cases, the archive of film producer David O. Selznick is the Ransom Center’s largest archive. Nathan Platte, a Musicology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, navigated through this enormous collection last year with a dissertation fellowship jointly sponsored by the Ransom Center and The University… read more
