June 26, 2020, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, FilmAll 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
May 3, 2016, Filed Under: Film, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Lewis Allen, indie film pioneer Gracia Ramirez is an independent scholar whose research centers on the initiatives of independent film producers within the American film industry of the 1960s. She conducted research in the collection of American independent film and Broadway producer Lewis M. Allen last summer with support from a 2014-2015 Robert De Niro… read more
