December 31, 2022, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, FilmCelebrate with us in 2023 In 2022, friends of the Ransom Center, along with Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, and Leonard Maltin, celebrated our 65th anniversary, establishing an endowment to fund the Robert De Niro Curator of Film position and advancing understanding of the humanities through the Center’s extraordinary film collection.
March 29, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Film, Photography, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellowships awarded to UT-Austin faculty and graduate students The Harry Ransom Center has awarded over a dozen fellowships for 2021-2022 to The University of Texas at Austin faculty and graduate students through the Center’s new UT-Austin Fellowship program. The new fellows reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the Center’s collections and represent a wide range of departments, programs, and… read more
February 5, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Film, Research + TeachingThe women who made Selznick’s screenplays by ERIN MCGUIRL This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Research is part of the history of Hollywood’s Golden age. Eighty years ago, in the heyday of the studio system, little libraries on studio lots employed a handful of people who collaborated with writers, directors, producers,… read more
