Harvard's policy since 1970 has been to permit filming on its property only rarely, so most scenes set at Harvard (especially indoor shots, but excepting aerial footage and shots of public areas such as Harvard Square) are in fact shot elsewhere.
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Harvard University | Film
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The perception of Harvard as a center of either elite achievement, or elitist privilege, has made it a frequent literary and cinematic backdrop.
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The perception of Harvard as a center of either elite achievement, or elitist privilege, has made it a frequent literary and cinematic backdrop. "In the grammar of film, Harvard has come to mean both tradition, and a certain amount of stuffiness," film critic Paul Sherman has said.
Harvard University | Literature and popular culture
Harvard's policy since 1970 has been to permit filming on its property only rarely, so most scenes set at Harvard (especially indoor shots, but excepting aerial footage and shots of public areas such as Harvard Square) are in fact shot elsewhere.
Harvard University | Film
Several movies and television shows take place at least in part at the school. Most of them have scenes filmed on location at or around Harvard University. They include: Many popular movies and television shows also feature characters introduced as Harvard Law School graduates. The central plot point of the TV series "Suits" is that one of the main characters did not attend Harvard but fakes his graduate status in order to practice law.
Harvard Law School | Film and television
Films set in the University include: This list does not include movies in which university buildings appeared as a backdrop but were not depicted as the University of Oxford, such as the "Harry Potter" films and the earlier "Young Sherlock Holmes".
University of Oxford in popular culture | In films
The film was shot at various locations in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Massachusetts, including the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The exterior of Winthrop House appears, but the interiors pictured are not that of actual Harvard houses, and the last scene of the movie was shot at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The buildings and surroundings were dressed up to look as if it were Harvard and many of the people in the final scene are Illinois students. The graduation scene was shot while the local climate in Illinois had not allowed for the trees to bloom leaves and so artificial branches and leaves were stapled on.
With Honors (film) | Production
All of the outdoor shots of Harvard's Widener Library had the University of Minnesota's Northrop Auditorium in that role. The scene in which Simon Wilder and Professor Pitkannan debate the role of the president in American democracy was filmed in Lincoln Hall at Northwestern Law School.
With Honors (film) | Production
Actors and directors such as Sir Ian McKellen, Eleanor Bron, Miriam Margolyes, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sir Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, John Oliver, Freddie Highmore, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Simon Russell Beale, Tilda Swinton, Thandie Newton, Georgie Henley, Rachel Weisz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Tom Hiddleston, Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Eddie Redmayne, Dan Stevens, Jamie Bamber, Lily Cole, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins all studied at the university, as did directors such as Mike Newell, Sam Mendes, Stephen Frears, Paul Greengrass, Chris Weitz and John Madden.
University of Cambridge | Literature
The film continues to be screened annually to incoming freshmen at Harvard College during orientation week. The 1973 film "The Paper Chase", set at Harvard Law School, features Harvard Square landmarks of its era, including the old Out of Town Newsstand, the old MBTA Harvard station kiosk with its "8 Minutes to Park Street" sign, and the now-defunct Kupersmith's Florists.
Harvard Square | In film and other media
Throughout its modern history, the University of Cambridge has featured in cultural works. As of 2020, IMDb list 71 films or TV shows that include Cambridge as a filming location. Below are some notable examples of references to Cambridge in popular culture.
University of Cambridge in popular culture | Introduction
Disillusioned by the prospect of a modestly paid university position and with having to teach, as opposed to do research, Kates sought better paying work. Through his Harvard connections Kates was introduced to Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount Pictures and was hired as a cultural consultant to assist with the accuracy of European movie productions. In 1927 Hollywood California was geographically isolated and once there Kates felt the loss of his friends, the cultural world of Europe and the East Coast. His work there consisted of selection of settings for filming, props and costumes appropriate to European settings. Paramount was in the process of producing a number of French and German pieces in order to broaden their offerings.
George N. Kates | Harvard, Oxford and Hollywood
In addition to schools such as The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, University of Pennsylvania, New York University and Harvard University.
Mala Mala (film) | Introduction
The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) is a film archive and cinema located in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of film, the HFA houses a collection of over 25,000 films in addition to videos, photos, posters and other film ephemera from around the world and from almost every period in film history. The HFA cinematheque screens films weekly in its 188-seat theater. It also maintains a film conservation center near Central Square, Cambridge. Harvard Film Archive won the 2020 Webby Award for Cultural Institution in the category Web.
Harvard Film Archive | Introduction
The latter stereotype is a central plot element of "The Paper Chase" and appears in "Legally Blonde".
Harvard Law School | 20th century: institutional criticism
The exterior shots of the Harvard Law School buildings were filmed on the Harvard Law School campus, and the library shots were filmed in the Harvard Andover library at the Harvard Divinity School. All interiors were shot on stages in Toronto. In a 1999 interview, Gordon Willis said production designer George Jenkins "reproduced the Harvard Law School in "The Paper Chase" beautifully." The hotel scene was filmed at the Windsor Arms Hotel. The scene of Hart and Ford entering a building to take their final exam near the film's end was shot in front of the Law School's oldest building, iconic Austin Hall.
The Paper Chase (film) | Production
The film follows the life of three students (Davis, Allen, Parker) at Harvard University and Radcliffe College in the 1960s.
A Small Circle of Friends | Premise
Having said that, we can also say, without equivocation, that Kevin Rafferty's "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" is a dazzling, engrossing, must-see piece of film all about...football. Except that it's also about a lot more."
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | Reception
Brown of Harvard, also known as Tom Brown at Harvard, is a 1918 film based on the 1906 Broadway play "Brown of Harvard" by Rida Johnson Young and the novel by Young and Gilbert Colman. The Washington State University football team and its coach, William "Lone Star" Dietz, participated in filming while in Southern California for the 1916 Rose Bowl.
Brown of Harvard (1918 film) | Introduction
Several scholars have examined the film as a portrayal of residual Catholic–Protestant tensions in Boston, as Irish Catholics from Southie are aligned against ostensibly Protestant characters who are affiliated with Harvard and MIT.
Good Will Hunting | Academic response
Although the drama is set at Harvard University, it was filmed at the University of Southern California and UCLA.
Love Story in Harvard | Production
Harvard, Here I Come! is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Lew Landers and stars Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, Arline Judge, Stanley Brown, Don Beddoe, Marie Wilson, and Virginia Sale.
Harvard, Here I Come | Introduction
This caused some concern within the Harvard community about the future of the archive and its programming. Jenkins resigned soon after the announcement.
Harvard Film Archive | History
Movies making reference to Columbia and/or featuring scenes shot on the Morningside campus include:
Columbia University in popular culture | Film
The producers posted an online response to this criticism. In a statement emailed to "The Harvard Crimson," the film's director and producer, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, criticized the law professors' letter, saying it was "irresponsible and raises an important question about whether the very public bias these professors have shown in favor of an assailant contributes to a hostile climate at Harvard Law". Jeannie Suk, one of nineteen Harvard Law professors to sign the letter, told the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education that filmmaker's comment "exemplifies the reckless way some people use the concept of a hostile environment these days", and later tweeted "if actually accused of violating Title IX because of our criticism of @thehuntinground we will not be allowed to speak about that".
The Hunting Ground | Harvard Law School
The Harvard Law School Drama Society dates back to 1961. During its existence, the Drama Society has performed a variety of humorous pieces focused on the law school experience, including musical revues and sketch comedy shows. Since the late 1980s, the Drama Society has focused exclusively on the Parody. Recent Parody themes have included The Hark Knight (referring to Harvard Law School's Student Center, known by students as "The Hark," and a spoof of "The Dark Knight"); Ocean's Replevin (a spoof of "Ocean's Eleven"); Twilitem: De Novo Moon (a spoof of "Twilight"); and Martha Minow and the J.D. Factory (referring to Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, and a spoof of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory").
Harvard Law School Parody | History
The film received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 33%, based on 36 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Harvard Man" is a pretentious, incoherent mess." On Metacritic, which uses an average of critics' reviews, the film has a score of 49 out of 100, based on 20 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Harvard Man | Critical reception
Boston University is sometimes referenced in art or pop culture. Here below are some notable examples.
Boston University | In popular culture
Bush (Yale), Al Gore (Harvard), and Meryl Streep (Vassar).
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | Production
Yale vs. Harvard is a 1927 "Our Gang" short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 64th "Our Gang" short that was released and is considered to have been lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire.
Yale vs. Harvard | Introduction
The FSC is currently involved in efforts to preserve film on film and to share its collection through public screenings, to ensure that films can continue to be presented as they were originally seen by audiences. The film collection of the Film Study Center is made up of a wide range of holdings, from Hollywood features to experimental shorts, from home movies to Bollywood musicals. The collection spans more than 120 years of cinema history, and includes films from around the globe as well as a number of films made by Yale alumni and about Yale and New Haven.
Yale Film Study Center | Introduction
This was the case not only at Barnard College and Radcliffe College, which are adjacent to Columbia and Harvard, but at more distant institutions as well. The movie "Animal House" includes a satiric version of the formerly common visits by Dartmouth men to Massachusetts to meet Smith and Mount Holyoke women, a drive of more than two hours. As noted by Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, and Elizabeth DeBra, "The 'Seven Sisters' was the name given to Barnard, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, and Radcliffe, because of their parallel to the Ivy League men's colleges."
Ivy League | Post-World War II
Bucknell University is central to the plot of the Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler movie The House.
Bucknell University | Popular Culture
Brown of Harvard is a 1911 silent film based on the 1906 play of the same name by Rida Johnson Young. It was the film debut of Edgar Kennedy.
Brown of Harvard (1911 film) | Introduction
Brown of Harvard is the title of three silent films all based on the 1906 Broadway play of the same name by Rida Johnson Young. The 1926 version is notable for featuring John Wayne's screen debut.
Brown of Harvard | Introduction
In another instance, Horowitz said a Pennsylvania State University biology professor showed his students the film "Fahrenheit 9/11" just before the 2004 election in an attempt to influence their votes. Pressed by "Inside Higher Ed", Horowitz later retracted this claim.
David Horowitz | Academia
He further notes that the passage of 40 years allowed a unique perspective as the players spoke about "what was not only the game of their careers but possibly the experience of their lives", and made note of how time led to other celebrity for some of the players, with Tommy Lee Jones becoming an Oscar-winning actor, Brian Dowling becoming the character "B.D." in the Doonesbury comic strip (Garry Trudeau attended Yale), and player Bob Levin remembering dating a Vassar undergraduate named Meryl Streep." Underscoring that the film had appeal to more than just sports fans, Bruce Eder of "All Movie Guide" began his review with "it is only fair of this writer to point out that he cares not one whit about, and has not a scintilla of interest in football.
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | Reception
Harvard University student Tom Brown (William Haines) is a handsome, athletic, and carefree young man who has a reputation as a Don Juan among the ladies. Although he is popular on campus, he finds himself at odds with Bob McAndrew (Ralph Bushman), a studious, reserved boy who becomes his chief rival for the affections of beautiful Mary Abbott (Mary Brian), a professor's daughter. Tom rooms with Jim Doolittle (Jack Pickford), an awkward weakling but goodhearted backwoods youth who idolizes him. The brash and cocky Brown easily wins over his dormitory mates, but refuses to let them ostracize Jim. One night at a party, Tom forcibly kisses Mary, which initiates a fight with Bob.
Brown of Harvard (1926 film) | Plot
To promote the play, she assembled a group of students to help create the multimedia project that appears on Tumblr. The Tumblr project consists of photos taken of students holding signs with racially insensitive and offensive remarks by peers and response they would like to make. Examples of signs included "No, I will not teach you how to 'twerk'" and "Don't you wish you were white like the rest of us?"
I, Too, Am Harvard | Origin
Actors Hugh Grant, Kate Beckinsale, Rosamund Pike, Felicity Jones, Gemma Chan, Dudley Moore, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Anna Popplewell and Rowan Atkinson were students at the university, as were filmmakers Ken Loach and Richard Curtis.
University of Oxford | Literature, music, and drama
The 1969 film "Goodbye, Columbus" takes place in Harvard Square near the film's conclusion, after the Richard Benjamin character learns that his girlfriend, Brenda Potimkin (played by Ali MacGraw), an undergraduate at Radcliffe College, had left her diaphragm in the top drawer of her bureau at home for her mother to discover. The 1970 film "Love Story", by the late Harvard University alumnus and Yale University professor of classics Erich Segal, takes place almost entirely in and around Harvard Square during its first two-thirds, while Harvard undergraduates Oliver Barrett and Jenny Cavalieri meet; finish college; get married; and Oliver goes to Harvard Law School while Jenny teaches school, living in a second-story walk-up in what looks like Watertown.
Harvard Square | In film and other media
Some of the movies popular on college circuits throughout the years have been either controversial or of specious artistic merit. The content of the movies often appeal to college-age sensibilities. Critics like Roger Ebert have expressed suspicion of such films when deemed "artistic", and instead charges them as misleading by presenting exploitive material (such as sex, violence, and drug use) by means that are more aesthetically pleasing to those educated in cinema studies than say, a grindhouse film, and therefore they become more acceptable to an "intellectual audience". This is an argument sometimes leveled against Blue Velvet or the ouvre of Ken Russell.
College circuit | Criticisms
This 26 minute film, Ladue's and Halle's master thesis, was produced at Boston University's College of Communications, Graduate Film Program. The film's style and approach is a reaction to the "Direct Cinema" movement Direct Cinema and co-called "balanced" television documentaries of the 1960s and 1970s. "Direct Cinema" made a claim on "objectivity" (real stories about real life), while "Karl Hess: Toward Liberty" tells a transparently "subjective" story, presenting the point of view of one man who experienced American politics from both the inside and out.
Peter Ladue | "Karl Hess: Toward Liberty"
Duckworthy had what seemed a similar experience - but Wimsey eventually proves that it had a rational explanation involving no supernatural agency).
The Student of Prague (1913 film) | References in popular culture
Mark Feeney of "Boston Globe" called the film "terrifically entertaining". Manohla Dargis of the "New York Times" found the film to be "preposterously entertaining". Tom Keogh of "Seattle Times" called it "a delightful documentary". In greater depth, Bob Hoover of "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" wrote "Despite his annoying style of lingering a bit too long on his subjects, Rafferty, mainly a TV documentary maker, pries fascinating stories and insights from the now aging players," and Kenneth Turan of "Los Angeles Times" wrote "A look at the legendary Nov. 23, 1968, game, "Harvard Beats Yale" is both an irresistible human story and as fine a documentary on football as ""Hoop Dreams"" was on basketball", calling the film "a memorable winner".
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | Reception
Stealing Harvard is a 2002 American crime comedy film directed by Bruce McCulloch and written by Martin Hynes and Peter Tolan, about a man who resorts to crime to pay for his niece's Harvard tuition. The film stars Jason Lee and Tom Green with Leslie Mann, Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins, John C. McGinley, Tammy Blanchard, and Megan Mullally. It was released on September 13, 2002 by Sony Pictures Releasing under their Columbia Pictures label.
Stealing Harvard | Introduction
The college has made its way into literature, film and television.
Queens' College, Cambridge | In popular culture
At Dartmouth, he and "Boston Globe" film critic Ty Burr were classmates and attended a class taught by David Thomson, another film critic. Gilroy developed a strong interest in written works of the Victorian era—chiefly those of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot.
Dan Gilroy | Early life and education
Suk later wrote that there have been several inquiries about filing a Title IX complaint and likened the misuse of Title IX to Laura Kipnis' experience. Another of the professors, Janet E. Halley, stated "What [the filmmaker's statement] really means is that they don't want the debate".
The Hunting Ground | Harvard Law School
The collection spans the history of film-making from the silent film era to today, and includes Hollywood films, documentaries, animation, short films, B-movies and feature films from all over the world. It is the largest collection of 35mm film in New England. The collection grows by an average of 15 to 20 films a year and contains some rarities, such as some of the only prints in the United States of several films by Serbian director Dusan Makavejev. It also features a large collection of German cinema and the Bavarian Film Fund donates prints of any films that it finances.
Harvard Film Archive | Collection
At Gallaudet he maintained a high GPA and completed his bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts, graduating in 2008.
Russell Harvard | Early life and education
A prime example of this is the representation of anti-semitism within the film "Gentleman's Agreement" and the subsequent sociological study by Russell Middleton that measured perceived anti-semitism before and after seeing the film. Surprisingly the film seemed to positively affect the subjects as the majority of people who participated in the study had markedly less anti-semitic feelings than before they saw the film. Although there are certain factors that need to be considered this study seems to indicate once again the primary didactic nature of the Social Problem Film as well as the tackling of subject matter relevant to the current era of the film and how audiences of the historical period perceived such a message.
Social problem film | Historical context and didactic nature
"Harvard Man" had only a limited theatrical release in July 2002, and received little critical or popular acclaim, although it achieved some success when it was released on video and DVD in October of that year.
Harvard Man | Release
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States, has been referenced by many works of cinema, television and the written word. MIT's overall reputation has greater influence on its role in popular culture than does any particular aspect of its history or student lifestyle. Because MIT is well known as a breeding ground for technology and technologists, the makers of modern media are able to use it to establish character in a way that mainstream audiences can understand. A smaller number of works use MIT directly as their scene of action.
MIT in popular culture | Introduction
Frequently, when a character in Hollywood cinema is required to have a science or engineering background, or in general possess an extremely high level of intelligence, the film establishes that he or she is an MIT graduate or associate. (MIT can also be a comparative or a metaphor for intellect in general: "Would they think of "that" at MIT?"). Numerous films and television series indulge in this technique, including: In "Iron Man," several close-ups of Terrence Howard clearly show his character ("Jim Rhodes") to be wearing a brass rat; Robert Downey, Jr.'s character ("Tony Stark") appears to wear one as well in the movie.
MIT in popular culture | Films and television
And the first thing that comes to my mind is, I want to make a movie of that person. 'Cause I like puttin' gauzes—ah, cheap, black cloth on the lens with a rubber band—and creating these, what look like 1940s movies, or movies of a beautiful Hollywood style, and blowing these people up bigger than life and making them into gods and goddesses. And I think in the movies that's a wonderful way of pushing them on the public, and infusing the public with great objects of desire, and dreams, and things of great beauty… living human beings of beauty."
Yale Union | George Kuchar
A lecturer at the university (SOAS) named William McGovern was one of the real-life inspirations of the film character Indiana Jones. Senate House and the constituent colleges of the University of London have been featured in Hollywood and British films.
University of London | Films and others
Vassar College has been featured in many books, movies, and television shows. This is a partial list of references and fictional alumni.
Vassar College in popular culture | Introduction
Academic institutions, including high schools, boarding schools, colleges, and university campuses, have historically been recurring settings for horror films. Film scholars have noted the prominence of educational institutions in the development of horror cinema, particularly in the subgenre of the slasher film. Critics such as Andrew Grunzke have cited the themes of bullying, sexuality, social acceptance, parent-child relationships, academic performance, and the development of morality during teenage and young adult life as primary reasons that many horror films have historically used the backdrop of high schools and colleges. Additionally, the universalization of education during the twentieth century, which coincided with the development of the horror film, helped foster a public audience for films set amongst students.
List of horror films set in academic institutions | Introduction
Emily Yoffe of "Slate" challenged the accuracy of the documentary, based upon her evaluation of the testimony against Brandon Winston by witness Kamilah Willingham, who said that Winston had sexually assaulted a classmate. "The Harvard Crimson" criticized the film for misrepresenting sexual assault statistics and other details. The "Crimson" article also charged that the film's creators had included excerpts of a fake video—created as a prank for the student comedy group "On Harvard Time"—showing a female Harvard applicant vomiting upon learning she had been accepted to the university. Writing for "New York Magazine", Jesse Singal criticized the film's use of statistics from a controversial research paper by Dr.
The Hunting Ground | Charges of inaccuracy
"Whose University Is It?" was released to theatres in Ontario in 2003 but received little notice in the media at the time, although the few reviews it did receive were generally positive. It was later broadcast to a national audience on ichannel TV. However, in the years following, it has attracted an international following. On June 8, 2005 an international symposium examining the very same issues as the film was held in the Netherlands at the university of Leiden. The symposium borrowed its name from the film and opened with a special screening of the movie. In 2009, the movie was screened in Yellow Springs, Ohio as part of a movement to save the Yellow Springs Antioch campus which was shuttered under circumstances similar to the events portrayed in the movie.
Whose University Is It? | Critical reception
Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, a Harvard undergraduate, created the multimedia project and campaign as an independent study project (under the direction of Professor Glenda Carpio during the fall of 2013) that interviewed minority students about their experiences at Harvard. They reported feelings of alienation about the Harvard campus, being the lone black student in some classes, or feeling uncomfortable about comments and social interactions with other students on campus. Matsuda-Lawrence reported that students made comments such as "I've never told anyone this before" or "I've never been able to talk about this." The students comments were kept anonymous and she used them to write a play.
I, Too, Am Harvard | Origin
In the 1999 film Election, Matthew Broderick's character compares his humiliating story to the apelike model of Homo ergaster.
Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins | In popular culture
Harvard Man is a 2001 American crime comedy-drama thriller film written and directed by James Toback, and starring Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Lauren Adams, Rebecca Gayheart, Ray Allen, and Eric Stoltz.
Harvard Man | Introduction
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Five Points, Manhattan | In popular culture
Starting in the late 1950s, the Brattle started a tradition of screening Humphrey Bogart films during the week of final exams at Harvard University. Films such as "Casablanca" and "The Maltese Falcon" were watched again and again and the "Bogie Cult" at the Brattle was formed. It was not uncommon for fans to attend these movies in costume and recite the dialogue word for word. Even to this day, there is always a packed crowd to see a Bogart film, such as the traditional Valentine's Day showing of "Casablanca".
Brattle Theatre | Bogie Cult
The film also is often credited by scholars with reviving the Ku Klux Klan. Though the film is often taught in film school due to its historical importance to the film industry (it is considered to be the first ever blockbuster), the presence of the film's posters made students feel that the film's message was actually being celebrated. After nearly a month of student protests and two years after a student first started an online petition, the Dodge College faculty voted to remove the posters and return them to the donor.
Chapman University | Controversy
In view of the difficulties encountered in introducing Hebrew as a subject in the high schools and colleges of New York City, one would never suspect that there was a time when the sacred tongue was readily accorded a place of honor in American higher education. This early American reverence for Hebraic scholarship was imported by the Puritans on the Mayflower from its European sources, the general cultural renaissance and the Protestant Reformation. Here in America it was then intensified by the extreme Puritan piety which regarded the Hebrew Scriptures as the direct revelation of God's will. Consequently, when Harvard, the oldest of America's colleges, was founded in 1636 for the training of ministers, it was inevitable that Hebrew should play a significant role as a required course of study for the B.A.
Strange to Relate | Hebrew and Harvard
Notable alumni of Hampshire College include filmmakers Ken Burns ("The Civil War", "Baseball"), Brett Morgen ("Jane", "", "Crossfire Hurricane"), Barry Sonnenfeld ("The Addams Family", "Men in Black" trilogy, "Wild Wild West" and "Get Shorty"), and Lee Hirsch (", Bully"); television creators John Falsey ("St. Elsewhere", "I'll Fly Away" and "Northern Exposure") and Victor Fresco ("Andy Richter Controls the Universe", "Better Off Ted" and "Santa Clarita Diet"); television producers Rod Roddenberry (", ," and son of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry) and Rhys Ernst ("Transparent, Adam"); actors Fred Melamed ("A Serious Man", "Lady Dynamite"), Academy Award-winner Lupita Nyong'o ("12 Years a Slave", "Us"), Tony Award-winner Liev Schreiber ("Ray Donovan"), Dennis Boutsikaris ("The Bourne Legacy", "Better Call Saul"), and Xander Berkeley (", Candyman, The Walking Dead, 24"); writers Robin Coste Lewis (poet laureate of Los Angeles and National Book Award winner for "Voyage of the Sable Venus"), Jon Krakauer (author of "Into the Wild"), National Book Critics Circle Award-winner and Guggenheim Fellow Eula Biss, and MacArthur Fellows such as Peter Cole and Naomi Wallace; journalists Ethan Gilsdorf ("The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wired, Salon"), Suzanne Daley ("The New York Times"), Amy K.
Hampshire College | Notable alumni
University of Wittenberg is the alma mater of Prince Hamlet (as well as his acquaintances Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Horatio) in William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg | Cultural references
As motion picture production evolved, so did its themes. Shortly after the silent shorts, filmmakers began adapting novels to the screen. Adaptation material in New England was especially rich with so many well-known novels being based there. House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter are two such novels based in New England and adapted into motion pictures, and two films that played a role in shaping the cinematic themes that would become part of New England film's identity for the entirety of the 20th century. According moving picture archives Northeast Historic Film (NHF), these themes include Development of Yankee Characters, Smalltown Life Contrasted with city Values, Seafaring Tales, Family Secrets, and Haunted New England.
Hollywood East | History of film in New England
For thirteen years, President Charles William Eliot had been attempting to transform Harvard from a provincially famous institution into a nationally recognized and admired leader in higher education. He believed that to do so, Harvard needed to attract students who came from all over the country, not just from Boston—and not just the wealthy. The academic curriculum needed to cater not just students in the liberal arts, but also ones who saw higher education as a path towards upward mobility, and as a way to pursue non-humanist studies. "The 1880s was in a sense the 'last gasp' of the leisured gentlemen, the last time they would dominate the university's academic and social structure." What seemed a mass movement toward practicality and specialization that would drain the university of the aestheticism and humanism frustrated the young men who would eventually found the "Monthly"; each was involved with one or more of the other Harvard literary publications—the "Lampoon", the "Advocate", and the "Crimson", which didn't offer the creative outlet they felt necessary.
The Harvard Monthly | Founding and Subsequent Years
Brown of Harvard is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Jack Conway, and starring William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is based on the successful 1906 Broadway play "Brown of Harvard" by Rida Johnson Young, who also co-wrote the popular music for the play along with Melvin Ellis. The film is best known of the three "Brown of Harvard" films. It was John Wayne's film debut. Uncredited, Wayne played a Yale football player. Grady Sutton and Robert Livingston, both of whom went on to long and successful careers, also appear uncredited. The 1918 film included future Boston Redskins coach William "Lone Star" Dietz and the only Washington State University football team to win a Rose Bowl.
Brown of Harvard (1926 film) | Introduction
The play was adapted to a silent film of the same name in 1915, and again in 1927, and in the sound film "Maybe It's Love" in 1930 and "Freshman Love" in 1936. The 1932 Marx Brothers' film "Horse Feathers" also largely appears to be a parody of the 1927 film. It was also adapted into a successful musical in 1917 under the title "Leave It to Jane".
The College Widow (play) | Adaptations and legacy
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Manhasset, New York | In popular culture
Scopus; Roberta and Stanley Bogen Library of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Mt. Scopus; and the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Subject-based libraries
Philip Roth's novel, "Exit Ghost", features a character who is described as having been a valedictorian at Kinkaid, prior to attending Harvard. In 1998, the movie "Rushmore" filmed scenes at Kinkaid. St. John's alumnus Wes Anderson used the now demolished Lower School Building for scenes set in an elementary school.
The Kinkaid School | In popular culture
In the movie, the main character Herschel Greenbaum debates Race, Gender, and Religion at Hudson University with the school's Professor of Humanitarianism Kim Ecklund.
Hudson University | "An American Pickle"
The following are characters in film, television, literature, and other media that have a connection to the university:
New York University in popular culture | List of fictional characters
The "Harvard Lampoon," forerunner of the "National Lampoon," once had a picture of Montenier shooting through the top of a building, with the caption “Poof! There goes Dr. Montenier.” Of this, Cerf said of Montenier, "He was a sweet man—but a bit of a fraud, you know."
Jules Montenier | Popular culture
After the game, Tom goes to the hospital to tell Jim of the victory, but Jim dies shortly afterward. Tom is acclaimed a school hero and is happily united with Mary.
Brown of Harvard (1926 film) | Plot
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Hasty Pudding Club, and Harvard Krokodiloes are all organizations of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 and share the same meeting space and social events on Harvard's campus.
Hasty Pudding Theatricals | Symbols
Lowell, Conant's predecessor, had imposed a 15 percent quota on Jewish students in 1922, something Conant had voted to support. This quota was later substituted with geographic distribution preferences, having the same effect of limiting Jewish admission. In the words of historians Morton and Phyllis Keller, "Conant's pro-quota position in the early 1920s, his preference for more students from small towns and cities and the South and West, and his cool response to the plight of the Jewish academic refugees from Hitler suggest that he shared the mild antisemitism common to his social group and time. But his commitment to meritocracy made him more ready to accept able Jews as students and faculty."
James B. Conant | President of Harvard
No film elements are known to survive, although there is a copy of the screenplay in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library. The soundtrack, which was recorded on Vitaphone disks, may survive in private hands. It is unknown whether a copy of this full version still exists.
College Lovers | Preservation
I had gone to Harvard that had the dining clubs but not the skull and bones, the secret societies. But I knew a lot about the secret societies, and I thought this is how the elite functions. This is how the elite knits together these bonds that take them through life and keep them in the elite heights of any society, and I was very excited about portraying that with Paul and Josh and all the cast. To create this secret world of power elites… that was very exciting to me and I got the cast excited about that idea.
The Skulls (film) | Critical response
The Hamptons and Hamptons society are occasionally featured on-screen and mentioned in films and television:
The Hamptons | In popular culture
"The Plastic Age" provides a composite image of 1920s campus life with many references to campus traditions at Dartmouth and Brown including bonfires, beanies, and fraternity rushing. The novel is notable for its depiction of students attending a film, a lightly fictionalized representation of the Nugget Theater in Hanover, NH which had opened in 1916. Marks and his book remained popular on college campuses for several years after the book's publication. Students—including humorist S. J. Perelman—protested his release and a satire of the book, titled, "The Plastered Age," by E.Z. Mark, was produced on campus; but to no avail. Marks left academia for many years and devoted his time to writing books.
The Plastic Age | Introduction
The following films have been filmed, at least in part, on the Wheaton campus or feature Wheaton students.
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) | Films
In the popular TV show "The Simpsons", Mr. Burns is a Yale alumnus.
Yale University | In fiction and popular culture
NYU has been portrayed in books, movies and television shows, and the campus of NYU has been the backdrop for a number of books and movies.
New York University | In popular culture
Principal photography began in October 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Fischer, Russ (October 20, 2009). "Casting Notes: Selena Gomez in Teen Rom Com; The Social Network Gets New Kids; The Whistleblower Gets Proven Talent". "/Film". Retrieved October 20, 2009. Scenes were filmed around the campuses of two Massachusetts prep schools, Phillips Academy and Milton Academy. Additional scenes were filmed on the campus of Wheelock College, which was set up to be Harvard's campus. (Harvard has turned down most requests for on-location filming ever since the filming of "Love Story" (1970), which caused significant physical damage to the campus.) Filming took place on the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles in the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University from November 2–4, which also doubled for Harvard in the film.
The Social Network | Filming
The series irreverently depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a close-knit group of Harvard alumni in their 40s as they navigate their ambitious yet clumsy and romantically intertwined lives in New York City.
Friends from College | Plot
Monty Kessler, an honors student in the Government program at Harvard University, rooms with art student Courtney Blumenthal, radio DJ and trust fund child Everett Calloway, and neurotic pre-med student Jeff Hawkes. Monty is the pet project of Professor Pitkannan, a Nobel Laureate and government cynic. While working on his thesis, Monty loses his work when his computer crashes. As he leaves to make copies of his sole printed version, he breaks his ankle and drops his thesis down a steam vent and into the boiler room of Widener Library, where he sees a disheveled man reading it, then burning the thesis page by page.
With Honors (film) | Plot
The football team sings it after wins, and new players are required to memorize it in both English and Latin. In the 2018 film "On the Basis of Sex", which portrays the life and early cases of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "Ten Thousand Men" plays as Ginsburg begins the first day of classes as one of only nine women among five hundred incoming Harvard Law School students.
Ten Thousand Men of Harvard | Introduction
Director Sam Wood was known for directing college-themed films such as "One Minute to Play" (1926) and "So This Is College" (1929). The film showcases the popularity of the college film subgenre of culture-clash plot elements that were the focus of comedies like "Hold 'Em Yale" (1928) with Rod La Rocque, and the drama "Redskin" (1929) with Richard Dix. The film was shot on a considerable budget of $514,000, and included recreating Yale's Derby Day on the MGM backlot. Shooting began on February 12, 1932, and lasted for nine weeks. Real college students for the film were recruited as extras for $5-a-day; while presumably providing authentic atmosphere to the crowd scenes, they were also cheaper to hire than the average professional film extra in Los Angeles, whose pay was set at $7.50.
Huddle (film) | Production
"On Harvard Time" content has been cited in "USA Today," "Business Insider"", Wonkette", "Gawker" and "The New York Times". A parody of Yale University's "That's Why I Chose Yale" admissions video sparked national outrage after "The Yale Daily News" criticized its treatment of a recent murder on the Yale campus. In response, "On Harvard Time" apologized and removed the reference.
On Harvard Time | Influence and controversy
Films and television Literature
Irvington, New York | In popular culture
Whose University Is It? is a 2003 made for TV documentary film that takes a critical look at the role of corporate funding on university education. It was produced and directed by Canadian filmmakers Mark Wright and James Motluk (credited as James E Motluk). It enjoyed a limited release to theaters in 2003 in Ontario and was broadcast on TV on ichannel in 2004.
Whose University Is It? | Introduction
Though Harvard ended required chapel in the mid-1880s, the school remained culturally Protestant and fears of dilution grew as enrollment of immigrants, Catholics and Jews surged at the turn of the 20th century. By 1908, Catholics made up nine percent of the freshman class and between 1906 and 1922 Jewish enrollment at Harvard increased from six to 25%. President A. Lawrence Lowell tried to impose a 12% quota on Jews, but the faculty rejected it even though he managed to cut the numbers in half anyway. By the end of World War II, the quotas and most of the latent antisemitism had faded away.
History of Harvard University | Minorities
For research, the filmmakers visited several colleges in the U.S., including Harvard University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, observing college architecture, student life, Greek organizations, and the teaching methods of professors and faculty. To research fraternity life, which is central to the film, many of the film's producers spent several weeks at a fraternity house. Researchers also attended a "Bonfire Rally" at Berkeley in anticipation of the Big Game, a rivalry football game between the university and Stanford.
Monsters University | Animation
The fashion of the 1930s and 1940s features prominently in the dark academia aesthetic, especially clothing items worn by students at Oxford, Ivy League schools, and prep schools of that time period. Some of the articles of clothing most associated with the aesthetic are cardigans, blazers, plaid skirts, Oxford shoes, and clothing made of houndstooth and tweed. Released in 1989, the coming-of-age film "Dead Poets Society" centers around students at a New England boarding school who are inspired to start a secret society for scholarly pursuits by their new English teacher's unorthodox methods of instruction. The importance the film ascribes to poetry, literature, and drama, as well as its themes of romance and death, making it applicable to the dark academia subculture.
Dark academia | Antecedents and cultural context
While these characters are often able to be related to in mainstream media, oppressed people tended to see them as a representation of their oppressors.
Blaxploitation horror films | Social impact