The Fifties and Pop/Visual Culture Conference will take place at Texas Christian University on Friday, November 9 and Saturday, November 10, 2018. The two-day academic event will feature a keynote address, multiple plenary sessions, and a variety of panels exploring noteworthy aspects of popular and/or visual culture during the decade of the 1950s. Come and… Read more »
Sometimes it’s more fun to learn about movies and TV shows than to make them. That’s what students do in FTDM’s new Cinema and Media Studies major. They learn to critically analyze all sorts of media offerings, ranging from films to streaming video and virtual reality. In the process, they discover how individuals and societies are… Read more »
Careers in Media Conference Friday, April 6, 2018 Join us in the BLUU for five panels covering various career opportunities in film, television and digital media. Authors/Critics Writers/Filmmakers Film Festivals Media Scholars Unscripted/Sports TV Our keynote speaker is independent Hollywood producer Michael De Luca. *Michael De Luca is the former president of production at New… Read more »
Unemployed screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) accepts a job ghostwriting for an eccentric silent-movie star (Gloria Swanson) who plans a comeback. Billy Wilder co-wrote (with Charles Brackett) and directed this cynical vision of Hollywood which combines fact with fiction: Buster Keaton, Hedda Hopper, and Cecil B. DeMille play themselves, and the great silent-film director Erich… Read more »
Tyrone Power plays the infamous outlaw and Henry Fonda plays his brother Frank. The James boys are the heroes in this account of unscrupulous railroads cheating the poor out of their land. Part biography, part western, and all action, this was Power’s first Technicolor film.
In this World War II drama, survivors of a battle between an Allied ship and a German U-Boat must work together to stay alive. Alfred Hitchcock loved a challenge—in this case, working entirely with one small set, and with a cast which includes Tallulah Bankhead, Canada Lee, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, and John Hodiak.
Due to an angel’s mistake, boxer Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery) has been called to heaven before his time, and he’s not happy about it. With the help of heavenly assistant Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), Joe finds a temporary home in the body of millionaire Bruce Farnsworth—but there are complications, as Joe tries to turn Farnsworth… Read more »
Just after World War II, Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) visits Key West to fulfill a promise to an army friend, and finds the friend’s widow (Lauren Bacall) and father (Lionel Barrymore) in trouble with an unwelcome guest, the famous gangster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson).
Steve Wilson, author of The Making of Gone with the Wind, is curator of the film collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He will discuss the production of the movie and its impact on audiences from 1939 to the present.
Vivien Leigh stars as Scarlett O’Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in what many consider the greatest Hollywood film ever made. Producer David O. Selznick supervised every detail of this epic which romanticizes the pre-Civil War South. Also starring Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, and Olivia De Havilland. Note: This film runs 4 hours with… Read more »
Charles Coburn plays a wealthy man who goes undercover at his own department store to investigate who is organizing his employees; before he knows it, Jean Arthur and Robert Cummings have enlisted him in the workers’ strike.
Prof. Henry Higgins, a specialist in languages, takes on the challenge of transforming Cockney flower-seller Eliza Doolittle into a lady, and she repays him by teaching him that true character is more important than correct pronunciation and high fashion. Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn star in this lavish musical. Note: This movie runs 2 hours 50… Read more »
