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Kathryn Allison Mann

Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Mad Men archive donated to UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center

January 12, 2017 - Suzanne Krause

The archive for the acclaimed drama Mad Men, one of television’s most honored series in history, has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. [Read more…] about Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Mad Men archive donated to UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Film Tagged With: acquisition, Advertising, AFI, Alisa Perrin, BAFTA Awards, Costumes and Personal Effects, donation, Emmy Awards, Film, Golden Globe Awards, Janie Bryant, Kathryn Allison Mann, Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate, Lionsgate TV, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, New York, Peabody Award, Producers Guild Awards, props, release, RTF, script, set design, Steve Wilson, television, Television Critics Association Awards, Writers Guild Awards

How Mad Men‘s head of research mined the past for the show’s famous historical accuracy

January 12, 2017 - Marissa Kessenich

Kathryn Allison Mann was the head of research for the television series Mad Men. She mined period books, magazines, and newspapers—as well as her extensive network of New Yorkers—to ensure the historical accuracy the show is famous for. Much of Mann’s notes and original material is included in the show’s archive, recently acquired by the Ransom Center. The archive will be available for research once cataloged. [Read more…] about How Mad Men‘s head of research mined the past for the show’s famous historical accuracy

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Film, Research + Teaching Tagged With: acquisition, head of research, Hollywood, Kathryn Allison Mann, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, New Yorker, researcher, RTF, writers room

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