Erik Barnouw (1908–2001)
Autor(a) de Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film
About the Author
Erik Barnouw, 1908 - 2001 Erik Barnouw was born in 1908 and came from the Netherlands to the United States at the age of 11. He attended Princeton University and after graduating, went on to become a radio writer and a producer. Barnouw began teaching radio writing at Columbia University in 1937. mostrar mais By 1947, he had founded the division of film, radio and television in the University's Arts Program. He worked for CBS for one year beginning in 1939, writing and editing, and editing for NBC from 1942 to 1944. He served as chairman of the division he had created at Columbia until 1968, retiring from the University in 1973. He was a member of the Writers Guild of America and served as it's chair from 1957 to 1959. In 1978, Barnouw went to work for the Library of Congress as a film and television expert, and created it's broadcasting and motion picture division, becoming it's first chief. In 1970, he produced a documentary entitled, "Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August, 1945" about the atomic bombs set off there. He was then commissioned to write a complete history of broadcasting by the Oxford University Press, and it was this masterpiece, consisting of three volumes, "A Tower of Babel," "The Golden Web" and "The Image Empire," which named him an expert in the field of broadcasting. Barnouw retired from the Library of Congress in 1978, yet continued to write, publishing his last volume, "Media Lost and Found" in the January before he died. Erik Barnouw died on July 19, 2001 at the age of 93 mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Erik Barnouw
A Tower in Babel (A History of Broadcasting in the United States to 1933, Vol. 1) (1966) 38 exemplares
The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States: Vol. 2 - 1933 to 1953 (v. 2) (1968) 35 exemplares
The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, Vol. 3: From 1953 (1970) 27 exemplares
Mass communication: television, radio, film, press; the media and their practice in the United States of America (1958) 9 exemplares
Handbook of radio writing; an outline of techniques and markets in radio writing in the United States (1939) 8 exemplares
A history of broadcasting in the United States 5 exemplares
Associated Works
American History, American Television: Interpreting the Video Past (Ungar Film Library) (1983) — Prefácio — 8 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Barnouw, Erik
- Data de nascimento
- 1908-06-23
- Data de falecimento
- 2001-07-19
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
Netherlands (birth) - Local de nascimento
- The Hague, Netherlands
- Local de falecimento
- Fair Haven, Vermont, USA
- Educação
- Horace Mann School
Princeton University - Ocupações
- radio historian
television historian - Relações
- Barnouw, Victor (brother)
- Organizações
- Columbia University
Armed Forces Radio
Writers Guild of America
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Library of Congress - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Peabody Award (1944)
George Polk Award (1971)
Award named in his honor by the Organization of American Historians (1983)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 20
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 721
- Popularidade
- #35,210
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 5
- ISBN
- 39
- Línguas
- 2