Tulane University in popular culture

Documentary

• Architecture School:^[1] This Sundance Channel documentary series follows a group of Tulane architecture students competing to design an affordable home in post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.^[2]

Feature film

• Welcome to Academia: The university was one of the main filming locations.
• The Pelican Brief (1993): It was filmed on Tulane's uptown campus and the president's house at Two Audubon Place.
• Runaway Jury (2003): The library of the Tulane president's house served as the judge's chambers.
• The Brooke Ellison Story (2004): Tulane's academic quad substituted for Harvard University's campus in Christopher Reeve's last film.
• College (2008), the university was one of the filming locations.
• Living Proof (2008): Television film from starring Harry Connick, Jr., which used the university as one of the filming locations.^[3]
• Hurricane Season (2010): The university's Fogelman Arena was one of the filming locations.^[4]
• Mardi Gras: Spring Break (2011): The university's Woldenberg Art Center's Freeman Auditorium was one of the filming locations.^[4]
• So Undercover (2011): The university's uptown campus was the main filming location.^[5]
• 22 Jump Street (2014): Tulane's uptown campus was one of the main filming locations for the movie, which also hired Tulane students as extras.^[6]
• Our Brand Is Crisis (2016): The university's McAlister Auditorium was one of the filming locations.^[7]
• Faith of My Fathers: The outside scenes of the United States Naval Academy were filmed at Tulane.

Radio

• American Routes: in fall 2008, Nick Spitzer began a new partnership with Tulane University to co-produce his weekly radio show.^[8]

Television

• Best Damn Sports Show Period: Celebrating the return of college football to the Louisiana Superdome after Hurricane Katrina; the show taped from the uptown campus on September 27, 28, and 29, 2006.^[9] 4
• Gilmore Girls: Rory's friends from Chilton, Madeline and Louise, end up attending Tulane.
• House of Cards, United States Secretary of State, Catherine Durant, is a Tulane University graduate.
• Sex and the City: In season 2, Mr. Big marries Natasha, who is a Tulane alumna .
• Treme: Filmed scenes of fictional professor Creighton Bernette (John Goodman) at Tulane University.
• Scream Queens: Tulane's uptown campus served as the location of the fictional Wallace University.
• The Magicians: Tulane's uptown campus served as a filming location for the fictional Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy.

Film

• Taxi Driver (1976): Robert De Niro's character shoots a robber to save a person who is wearing a Tulane T-shirt.
• No Mercy (1986): William Atherton's character wears a Tulane sweatshirt.
• JFK (1991): Kevin Costner plays Tulane Law School graduate Jim Garrison in this Oliver Stone film.
• The Pelican Brief (1993): 1993 screen adaptation of the 1992 John Grisham suspense/thriller The Pelican Brief, which involves a fictional second-year Tulane law student and her professor as characters.
• Shark Night (2011): Seven Tulane undergraduate students go for a weekend trips in Louisiana Gulf where they are attacked by shark.
• The Best of Me (2014): Michelle Monaghan plays Amanda Collier, who attends Tulane University. Other references to the school are made throughout the movie.

Literature

(Alphabetical by author's surname)

Television

Video Games

• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers by Sierra Entertainment: Tulane is one of the game locations.
• In the Laura Bow Series by Sierra Entertainment (including games The Colonel's Bequest and The Dagger of Amon Ra): Laura Bow, the main character is a Tulane student.