Learn more about screenwriter and director Paul Schrader donating his collection to the Ransom Center. Please click the thumbnails to view full-size images.
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Screenwriter and director Paul Schrader donates collection to Harry Ransom Center
Screenwriter and director Paul Schrader has donated his collection to the Harry Ransom Center. Schrader wrote screenplays for such iconic films as Taxi Driver (1976), Blue Collar (1978), Raging Bull (1980), American Gigolo (1980), The Mosquito Coast (1986), and Affliction (1997). Schrader had previously donated Robert De Niro’s costume from… read more
Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents
Tom Kemper, author of Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents (University of California Press, 2009), did research for his book in the Ransom Center’s film collection with funding from the Warren Skaaren Film Research Endowment. He shares some of the surprising information he discovered while working with the Myron… read more