Erik Barnouw

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Erik Barnouw (born June 23, 1908 in The Hague , Netherlands , † July 19, 2001 in Fair Haven , Vermont , USA ) was an American media historian and filmmaker.

Life

Barnouw was a professor at Columbia University in New York . Most famous are his great history of American television, his history of documentary films and his film about Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

The Organization of American Historians has been presenting the Erik Barnouw Award, named after Barnouw, for films on American history since 1983 .

Works

as an author
  • History of Broadcasting in the United States . Oxford University Press, New York 1967ff.
  1. A tower in Babel. To 1933 . 1967.
  2. The Golden Web. 1933-1953 . 1985.
  3. The image empire. From 1953 . 1970.
  • The sponsor. Notes on a Modern Potentate . Transaction Books, New Brunswick 2004, ISBN 0-7658-0547-2 (reprint of New York 1978 edition).
  • Tube of Plenty. The Evolution of American Television . Oxford University Press, New York 1992, ISBN 0-19-506484-4 (reprinted from New York 1976 edition).
  • Documentary. A History of the Non-Fiction Film . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-507898-5 .
  • Media marathon. A 20th century memoir . Duke University Press, Durham 1996, ISBN 0-8223-1728-1 (autobiography).
  • Media lost and found. (Communications and media studies; 4). Fordham University Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-8232-2098-2 .
as editor
  • International Encyclopedia of Communications . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1989, ISBN 0-19-504994-2 (4 vols.).

Movies

  • Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945 . 1970 (This compilation film uses footage shot by the Japanese shortly after the atomic bombs were dropped, as well as American footage).

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personal data
SURNAME Barnouw, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American media historian and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH The Hague , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2001
Place of death Fair Haven , Vermont , USA