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Mel Gussow’s interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors to be digitized

April 28, 2017 - Jennifer Tisdale

Mel Gussow and Edward Albee at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, December 13, 1979.

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has awarded the Ransom Center a “Recordings at Risk” grant for $24,600, supporting the project “Preserving the Interview Recordings of Mel Gussow, American and British Theater Critic.” The Ransom Center holds the Gussow (1933-2005) papers. [Read more…] about Mel Gussow’s interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors to be digitized

Filed Under: Digital Collections, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Al Hirschfeld, Arthur Miller, audiotape, Caffe Cino, cassette, CLIR, Council on Library and Information Resources, David Hare, David Mamet, digital collections portal, Edward Albee, interviews, Joseph Papp, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Kline, LaMaMa, Lanford Wilson, Laurence Olivier, Living Theatre, Mel Gussow, Meryl Street, New York Times, playwright, Public Theatre, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett, Sigourney Weaver, theater, Tom Stoppard, Woody Allen

Letters and diaries of major artistic figures of the twentieth century illuminate Mary Hutchinson, but who was she?

December 8, 2016 - Marissa Kessenich

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Learn about Mary Hutchinson, the woman who influenced the lives and works of writers T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and Samuel Beckett. [Read more…] about Letters and diaries of major artistic figures of the twentieth century illuminate Mary Hutchinson, but who was she?

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Aldous Huxley, literature, Mary Hutchinson, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot

This is not a film: Ransom Center screens Ross Lipman’s NOTFILM

May 26, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

The Ransom Center presents a screening of Ross Lipman’s Notfilm, an experimental “kino-essay” charting the development and production of Samuel Beckett’s ambitious and enigmatic 1965 silent film project, Film, directed by Alan Schneider and starring silent-film actor Buster Keaton. [Read more…] about This is not a film: Ransom Center screens Ross Lipman’s NOTFILM

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Alan Schneider, Barney Rossett, Buster Keaton, documentary, experimental film, Film, film essay, kino-essay, Mihaly Vig, NOTFILM, Ross Lipman, Samuel Beckett, silent film, summer film series

Summer Film Series kicks off with Film and Not Film

May 18, 2016 - Kathleen Telling

The Ransom Center presents its Summer Film Series, beginning Thursday, June 16, with a showing of FILM (1965) followed by NOTFILM (2015). [Read more…] about Summer Film Series kicks off with Film and Not Film

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Film Tagged With: Alan Schneider, Buster Keaton, Film, Frida, Frida Kahlo, Julie Taymor, NOTFILM, Salma Hayek, Samuel Beckett, Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, short films, Vaudeville and Vitaphone, Warner Brothers

Fellows Find: The Christine Brooke-Rose archive

June 16, 2015 - Stephanie Jones

Christine Brooke-Rose in her WAAF uniform before she went to Bletchley Park. She is on the right, shown with three other women.

Stephanie Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in the English and Creative Writing Department at Aberystwyth University. At the Ransom Center, she analyzed the Christine Brooke-Rose papers for her dissertation, which is a single-author study on the writer, looking at the neglect of her work as a British author by the industry. Jones’s research was supported by a 2014–2015 Dissertation Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center, jointly funded by the Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation and The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies.

 

The subject of neglected British experimental authors has emerged as a poignant topic of critical discussion over the last few years. Writers of the 1960s and 1970s who had been influenced by the Second World War, as well as the highly reflexive, avant-garde literature produced bysuch modernist heavyweights as James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Samuel Beckett, are beginning to be reassessed as having something useful to offer to the current critical climate. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: The Christine Brooke-Rose archive

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, Authors, Bletchley Park, Books, Christine Brooke-Rose, Christine Brooke-Rose Society, Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation, Ezra Pound, Fellows Find, Fellowships, James Joyce, literature, modernism, Natalie Ferris, Research, Samuel Beckett, Stephanie Jones, The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies

Notes from the Undergrad: Feeling Samuel Beckett’s pain and “Godot” in German

March 23, 2015 - Lily Pipkin

Lily Pipkin with Samuel Beckett's letter. Photo by Pete Smith.

Lily Pipkin was a Plan II student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists, cultures from which they are drawn, and the archival process itself. Below, Pipkin shares her experience in the class. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: Feeling Samuel Beckett’s pain and “Godot” in German

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Drama in the Archives, Elon Lang, Notes from the Undergrad, Samuel Beckett, Undergraduate

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