Erik Barnouw

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

Life

Barnouw was a professor at Columbia University in New York. Best known for his great history of American television, the history of documentary film and his film on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Since 1983, the Organization of American Historians Barnouw Erik Barnouw named after Award gives for films to American history.

Works

  • History of Broadcasting in the United States. Oxford University Press, New York, 1967ff.
  • The Sponsor. Notes on a Modern Potentate. Transaction Books, New Brunswick 2004, ISBN 0-7658-0547-2 ( Nachdr d ed New York 1978).
  • Tube of Plenty. The Evolution of American Television. Oxford University Press, New York 1992, ISBN 0-19-506484-4 ( Nachdr d ed New York 1976).
  • Documentary. A History of the Non - Fiction film. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-507898-5.
  • Marathon Media. A 20th century memoir. Duke University Press, Durham 1996, ISBN 0-8223-1728-1 ( autobiography).
  • 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 material from which the Japanese had turned shortly after the dropping of the atomic bombs, and American material).
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