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[Dialogue with filmmaker S. Pearl Sharp]
No full textVideo footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 23rd season of the Black Academy on May 6th, 2000. The footage shows Black filmmaker S. Pearl Sharp discussing her short films "Life is a Saxophone" ,"The Healing Passage", "Picking Tribes", and "Back Inside Herself" along with her experience in the film industry
[Dialogue with filmmaker S. Pearl Sharp]
No full textVideo footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 23rd season of the Black Academy on May 6th, 2000. The footage shows Black filmmaker S. Pearl Sharp discussing her short films "Life is a Saxophone" ,"The Healing Passage", "Picking Tribes", and "Back Inside Herself" along with her experience in the film industry
The Memory-History-Popular Culture Nexus: Pearl Harbor As a Case Study in Consumer-Driven Collective Memory
No full textIn this paper I examine the fusing of collective memory, history and popular culture by analyzing current trends in American-made commercial films with historical events as subject matter that have also been distributed to a global audience. Pearl Harbor is the primary case study. Analysis shows that dominant historical narratives are reified by the use of what I term an 'anticipatory-driven' film experience where audience members engage in an interaction with pre-existing mainstream collective memory while their anticipation for impending climactic trauma is systematically heightened. Comparisons are made to other widely released US films about national and international events and 'non-events.' Questions are also raised about the increasing global importance of the memory-history-popular culture nexus post 9-11, and, how US produced films about 9-11 may or may not engage in the practices detailed in this analysis. In this vein the paper concludes with a discussion of how Pearl Harbor was marketed, edited and received in Japan, the second largest audience for Hollywood films and what this implies about social memory construction in a global commercial context.Collective Memory, Film, Hollywood, National Identity, Pearl Harbor, Social Memory
The Pearl S. Buck Manuscripts Collection and the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation
No full textThe Pearl S. Buck Birthplace preserves the birthplace home of the author Pearl S. Buck and interprets her life from its humble origins in the Appalachian town of Hillsboro, West Virginia to her rise to international recognition as a Nobel Prize winning author. The house museum educates visitors on the early experiences of Pearl\u27s life that helped shape some of the major characters and plotlines of her books. The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace is also a cultural asset for the Hillsboro community, providing opportunities for education, recreation and economic development. This presentation will provide a brief history of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, the Birthplace Museum, and how the PSBBF came to be the owners and stewards of Ms. Buck’s original manuscript collection. The talk will present Ms. Buck’s views on her place of birth and her stated desires for the manuscript collection and the Birthplace to become “…a gateway to new thoughts and dreams and ways of life!
Author Pearl S. Buck, 1965-66 Artist Lecture Series, Chapman College, Orange, California
No full textAuthor Pearl S. Buck, 1965-66 Artist Lecture Series, Chapman College, Orange, California, October 10, 1965. Winner of both Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes in Literature.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cu_events/1035/thumbnail.jp
Pearl S. Buck Collaborative: Papers, Places and Partners
No full textNobel and Pulitzer prizewinning author Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) is well known for her fiction and nonfiction drawing largely upon her experiences growing up in China, the daughter of American Presbyterian missionaries. Less well known is the profound influence of her family heritage and birthplace in southern West Virginia on her life and work, and which led her to place her literary manuscripts in the care of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation in Hillsboro, WV, shortly before her death. In 2014, a collaboration was formed between the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, West Virginia University and West Virginia Wesleyan College to open this little known but priceless resource -- the Pearl S. Buck Literary Manuscripts Collection -- to research and to promote Pearl S. Buck studies through a wide variety of events and initiatives. This poster presentation will focus on the goals and terms of the collaboration and demonstrate the considerable progress that has occurred to date
Author Pearl Buck given Key to City by Councilman Freeman Woods
No full textVice Mayor G. Freeman Woods proclaimed author Pearl Buck an honorary citizen of Tucson in March of 1965. She was campaigning for funds for her Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which aided Korean-American children. [Chapter 9 Page 185
Captain Mervyn Sharp Bennion
No full textCaptain Mervyn Sharp Bennion gave his life at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, when his ship, the U. S. West Virginia, was sunk in battle
["A Sharp Show" film feast luncheon]
No full textVideo recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 2006 Filmfeast weekend of the luncheon featuring director Pearl S. Sharp. The event entitled "A Sharp Show" screened her short films "Life is a Saxophone", "The Healing Passage", "Picking Tribes", and "Back Inside Herself". The footage shows Sharp being interviewed followed by the luncheon dialogue and Q&A
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