Tribute to Erik Barnouw’s Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film (1974) honors the founder of the School of the Arts Film Division on the occasion of the School’s 60th Anniversary. Books on media that Barnouw wrote also include Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American TV (1990). Screening highlights include Barnouw talking about US elections for Paper Tiger TV (1992), Hiroshima/Nagasaki, August 1945 (1970), the film edited in the Columbia Film Department from US national archives footage, and 1930s US documentary classic about the Great Depression—The Plow That Broke the Plains (Pare Lorentz, 1936). A panel of film scholars will comment on Barnouw’s contribution to film and media history and documentary today.
Co-sponsored by Film and Media Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts and the Faculty Seminars in "Sites of Cinema.”
7 PM: Panel
Joshua Glick, Adjunct Associate Professor, Film, Columbia University; Associate Professor of Film & Electronic Arts at Bard College
Dee Dee Hallek, Founder, Paper Tiger TV, Professor Emerita UC-San Diego
Nico Baumbach, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Columbia University
Charles Musser, Professor of Film, Yale University
Jane Gaines, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Columbia University
8:15 PM: Screening
Erik Barnouw Looks at Television and Elections (Paper Tiger TV, 1992), 28 min.
The Plow That Broke the Plains (Pare Lorentz, US, 1936), 30 min.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki, August 1945 (1970), 1 min. clip
