Summary Information

Title: Stuart Gordon Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1968-2007

Creator:

• Gordon, Stuart, 1947-2020

Call Number: M2008-074; HC 204-265; VHA 759-897

Quantity: 37.0 cubic feet (86 archives boxes, 10 flat boxes, and 2 oversize folders), 1.4 cubic feet of photographs (2 archives boxes, 2 half-archives boxes, and 1 cardfile box), 64 reels of film (35 mm), 174 video recordings, 47 videodiscs, and 29 audio recordings
Repository:

Housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections; owned by the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers, 1968-2007, of Stuart Gordon, theater director, film director, and screenwriter. The bulk of the collection documents his work in cinema and, to a lesser extent, television. Motion pictures directed by Gordon represented include Re-Animator, 1985; From Beyond, 1986; Space Truckers, 1996; The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, 1998; Dagon, 2001; and Stuck, 2007. Documentation of other motion pictures to which he contributed includes, among others, papers concerning Pet Sematary, 1989; and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, 1989. There is a small quantity of material relating to Gordon's theatrical career as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and as a co-founder of the Organic Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1970s and 1980s.

Language: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish

URL to cite for this finding aid: https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2008074