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Secret Scripture’s Sebastian Barry on the journey from Dublin to Hollywood
Dublin-born author Sebastian Barry has received high praise for his novels, poetry, and plays alike. The mastermind behind a repertoire of over 20 published works, Barry weaves together the onward flow...
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From Bond girls to Brooks Brothers, how Janie Bryant designed costumes for...
Janie Bryant was the costume designer for the television series Mad Men. Janie Bryant. Photograph by Elisabeth Caren. Some of Bryant’s costumes and research material, including inspiration boards for...
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How Mad Men‘s head of research mined the past for the show’s famous...
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...
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Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Mad Men archive donated to UT Austin’s...
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...
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Interview with Matthew Weiner, creator, executive producer, writer, and...
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. The donation was made by Matthew Weiner, the series...
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Papers of actors Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson acquired
The Ransom Center has acquired the papers of actors, and husband and wife, Eli Wallach (1915–2014) and Anne Jackson (1925–2016). Known as method actors and early members of the Actors Studio in New...
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Archive acquired of theatre and film actor Peter O’Toole
The Ransom Center has obtained the archive of British-Irish theatre and film actor Peter O’Toole (1932–2013). Studio photo of Peter O’Toole in the 1962 film “Lawrence of Arabia.” After eight Academy...
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Trailer music and setting the narrative: a fellow’s use of the David O....
James Deaville (Carleton University) discusses his research interests in advance of his visit to the Ransom Center. Deaville is supported by the Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in...
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Classical cinema’s Mexican revolution
Dr. Charles Ramírez Berg is Joe M. Dealey, Sr. Professor in Media Studies in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book The Classical Mexican...
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Thousands of cultural heritage materials now instantly shareable in new...
Ransom Center adopts IIIF and Mirador viewer More than 50,000 images in the Ransom Center’s digital collections portal are now available via the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)....
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In the galleries: Dressing for success in Mad Men’s Season 6
The Ransom Center’s Stories to Tell exhibition features a rotating selection from the Ransom Center’s holdings. Currently on display are selections from the Mad Men archive, donated by series creator...
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Decades of movie poster history go online
It is difficult to envision the sheer volume of the Movie Poster Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The collection encompasses upwards of 10,000 posters and spans decades: from when the film...
View ArticleOn survival and freedom in 1958 America: Mike Wallace and Reinhold Niebuhr
In April 1958, the American Broadcast Company (ABC) began a special 13-part series of The Mike Wallace Interview devoted to “discussing the problems of survival and freedom in America.” Wallace’s first...
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Love and jazz
Maxine Gordon has loved jazz music all her life. From going to hear Miles Davis and John Coltrane as a teenager, to working as a road manager and promoter when she was a young woman, to becoming the...
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Big swagger, little song
As a native Texan, Aaron Latham knows a thing or two about swagger. The journalist wrote 1978’s Esquire magazine article “The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America’s Search for True Grit” and the...
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Mad Men archive open for research
The archive of the television show Mad Men is open for research at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Researchers will have access to the creation and production history of...
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Preserving a Texas villain: Leatherface
I have yet to encounter someone who doesn’t know of the 1974 horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. While you may not have seen it, you’ve almost assuredly heard of it. The film follows five...
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Early special effects
Leslie DeLassus is a film historian and instructor with a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Iowa. While working on her Ph.D, DeLassus came to the Ransom Center to research early film special...
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Getting to know Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach through their archive
For archivist Katherine Mosley, processing the papers of actors Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach felt like joining their social circle. The Ransom Center acquired the couple’s papers in March 2017. From...
View ArticleA family affair
by Kate O’Toole It was through a friend in London, Professor Eva Griffith, that I first received unimpeachable bona fides for the Harry Ransom Center. Some years ago, Eva had received a fellowship from...
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