Naremore, James mss., 1956-2000
Summary Information
Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
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Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
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Creator
Naremore, James.
TitleNaremore, James mss., 1956-2000
Collection No.
LMC 2786
Extent
6 items
Language
Materials are in English.
Abstract
The Naremore, James mss., 1956-2000,
consist of the papers of James Naremore, Emeritus Chancellors' Professor of
Communication and Culture, English, and Comparative Literature at Indiana
University.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
Naremore has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and has taught as a
visitor at the University of Hamburg, the University of Chicago, and the Art
Institute of Chicago; in 2013 he was a Guest Professor at UCLA. His books have
been translated into eight languages, and his honors and awards include a Guggenheim
Fellowship, a National Gallery of Art Fellowship, and the Tracy M. Sonneborn Award
for Teaching and Research at Indiana University. He received an International
Kraszna-Krausz Moving-Image Book Award and a Society for Cinema and Media Studies
commendation for
More than Night: Film Noir in Its
Contexts
(California, 1998, rev. ed. 2008). His other books include
The World without a Self: Virginia Woolf and the
Novel
(Yale, 1974),
Filmguide to Psycho
(Indiana, 1973),
The Magic World of Orson Welles
(Oxford, 1978, rev.ed. 1988),
Acting in the Cinema
(California, 1988),
The Films of Vincente Minnelli
(Cambridge, 1993),
On Kubrick (British Film
Institute, 2007), and
Sweet Smell of Success (British
Film Institute, 2010). He is currently a Writer-at-Large for
Film Quarterly and the series editor of
Contemporary Film Directors for University of Illinois Press.
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes a 1990 letter from Charlton Heston to James Naremore, two
early scripts for Stanley Kubrick's
Paths of
Glory,
the final shooting script for
Full Metal
Jacket,
a copy of the unproduced screenplay for Kubrick's
Napoleon, a two-volume French language dissertation on
the oeuvre of Orson Welles, and a VHS recording of the American Film Institute (AFI)
Lifetime Achievement Award given to Orson Welles in 1975.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Acquired: 2011
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patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in
advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Naremore, James mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
Processing InformationProcessed by Alessandro Meregaglia.
Completed in 2014
Box 1
Correspondence: Heston, Charlton to Naremore, James, 1990
The American Film Institute Life Achievement
Awards: Orson Welles
(VHS tape)
Full Metal Jacket script
Paths of Glory script
Paths of Glory script (second
draft)
Napoleon screenplay
La Composition Sonore dans le Cinema D'orson
Welles et Ses Rapports avec son Oeuvre Adiophonique et
Theatrale
(French language doctoral dissertation by Francois Thomas)
