Film

March 29, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Film, Photography, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts

Fellowships 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 + Teaching

The 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

ABOUT ERIN MCGUIRL

Erin McGuirl is the Executive Director of the Bibliographical Society of America. Her background is in librarianship, and since 2008 she has worked with library and private collections of rare materials in New York City and elsewhere. Her writing has appeared in Printing History, Atlas Obscura, the blog for the Journal of the History of Ideas, and in the forthcoming Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton University Press).

June 26, 2020, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Film

All hail The Queen! An interview with drag historian Joe E. Jeffreys

Inside the spring 2020 Stories to Tell exhibition, Ransom Center film curator Steve Wilson explores the archive related to the recently restored film, The Queen, which documents the 1967 “Miss All American Camp Beauty Pageant” held in Manhattan. The New York contest was a parody of the Miss America pageant… read more