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CAREER ACQUISITION HIGHLIGHTS,  PUBLICATIONS, CURATORIAL PROJECTS, AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

CAREER ACQUISITION HIGHLIGHTS

  • Alamo Drafthouse collection of Mondo Movie Posters

  • Richard Amsel collection

  • Art Directors Guild collection

  • Saul Bass papers

  • Stephen Chin collection on kung fu films

  • Costume Designers Guild collection

  • Czechoslovakian Communist-era movie posters collection

  • Cudequest Family collection

  • Jacques Fonteray costume design drawings

  • Betsy Heimann papers

  • JC Backings collection

  • Richard Koszarski Polish Poster collection

  • Edward Mapp collection

  • Arthur Max papers

  • Miramax Animation Materials for Arabian Knight (The Thief and the Cobbler)

  • Isis Mussenden costume design drawings

  • Jeannine Oppewall production design drawings

  • Julius Paul poster collection

  • Permanencia Voluntaria Calderón Family collection

  • Arianne Phillips papers

  • May Routh papers

  • Soviet Union movie posters collection

  • Leonard Stanley collection

  • Steven Spielberg animation collection

  • Studio Ghibli Animation collection

  • Marilyn Vance papers

  • Albert Wolsky papers

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Coco, Anne. “History of Costume Sketches.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Themes and Issues Online. London: Bloomsbury, (2023) DOI: 10.5040/9781474207867.043.

  • ---- “Institutional Collecting in the Twenty-first Century.” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Themes and Issues Online. London: Bloomsbury, (2023) DOI: 10.5040/9781474207867.044.

  • ---- “Giant: A Study of Costume Design in Transition.” Film, Fashion & Consumption, 8.1 (May 2019): 35-47.

  • ---- “Documenting Suspense: The Alfred Hitchcock Papers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library.”  Hitchcock: Bastidores do suspense, São Paulo: Museu da Imagem e do Som, (2018): 12-13.

  • ---- and Jenny Romero, “Documenting Cinema: The Evolution of the Film Librarian.” Journal of Film Preservation, 97 (October 2017): 47-52.

  • ---- “Creating the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Production Art Database.” Virtual Costumer, 10 (2012): 32-38.

  • ---- “Drawing on Film: Access, Cataloging and Conservation of Costume Design Drawings at the Margaret Herrick Library.” In Documenting: Costume Design, edited by Nancy E. Friedland, New York: Theatre Library Association, (2010): 85-93.

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

  • Highlights from the Alamo Drafthouse Collection of Mondo Posters, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library, January 2024-December 2025

  • Candid Hollywood: The Photographs of Nat Dallinger, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library, January 2015-January 2016

  • Kick Ass! Kung Fu posters from the Stephen Chin collection, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Grand Lobby and 4th Floor Gallery, 2013

  • The Fine Art of Film Posters: Selections from the Los Angeles Public Library Collection, Los Angeles Public Library, 2008-2009

  • Close Up in Black: African American Film Posters, Smithsonian Institution’s Traveling Exhibition Service, 2003-2005

  • The Origins of Screen Style: Hollywood Costume Sketches from the Leonard Stanley Archive, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 4th Floor Gallery and Grand Lobby, 1999-2000

  • The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters: The Movie Poster Art of Reynold Brown, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 4th Floor Gallery, 1997

 

PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • The Historic Drawings Collections at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library, Drawings from Set Design to Film Analysis, Cinémathèque Française and Le Femis, 2024

  • Celluloid Paper Trail: Documenting Film Costume Design at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library, Feminist Film History in Scandinavia: New Approaches, Methodologies, and Connections, Nasjonalbiblioteke, 2023

  • An Evening with the Saul Bass collection, Words on Film, Margaret Herrick Library, 2020

  • Sometimes Even Thieves Deserve to be Rescued: A Real-Life Archival Tale From the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library, Materials in Motion, 2019

  • Selection and Safe Handling of Moving Image Related Objects for Exhibitions, Association of Moving Image Archivists, 2018

  • What’s in a Name: Margaret Herrick, L.A. as Subject Archives Bazaar, 2016

  • Building a Graphic Design Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art symposium, study day host at the Margaret Herrick Library, 2014

  • Altering the System: American Movie Costume Design 1948-1982, ARLIS/NA 41st annual conference, 2013

  • Drawn into Hollywood: Documenting Costume Design in the Movies, Costume Society of America Annual Symposium, 2006

  • Movie Posters! From Commercial Function to Exhibition Object! A True Story Told on Big Paper!, Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material 3rd symposium for the conservation of paper, books and photographic materials, 2004

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