Media Lost and Found / Erik Barnouw.
Barnouw, Erik, author.
2021
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Title Media Lost and Found / Erik Barnouw.
Author Barnouw, Erik, author.
ISBN 9780823296057
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296057
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Copyright ©2001
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (179 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823296057 doi
Summary This selection of essays, articles, lectures, and other writings by Erik Barnouw, dean of American media scholars, chronicles "the phenomenon of old media giving way to new, and then being replaced by them, as the ghosts of old media rise in new forms." In Media Lost and Found, the sixteenth century will introduce us to early stirrings of photography, as well as the rise of "black lists," which have a too-familiar ring within our own lifetime. The collection begins with an article on documentary film pioneer Robert Flaherty. Barnouw then moves to a discussion of his Dutch heritage and its role in Western civilization. This is followed by fascinating accounts of ingenious pioneers of camera obscura and magic lantern phantasmagoria, precursors of the magic of motion pictures. There are lively accounts of Barnouw's own experiences, an informative brief history of communications breakthroughs, and an examination of the foibles of media censorship. The final articles discuss the importance of Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray and cinematographer Boris Kaufman, brother of Soviet filmmakers Djiga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman. In his writing and in his life, Erik Barnouw has been consistently elegant, self-deprecating, affectionate, and redolent of great depths, encouraging us to look for and foster them in our own lives.
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Series Communications and Media Studies
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823220991
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
1. In the Flaherty Way: Memories of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
2. G.I. Guide to Holland (Excerpts)
3 Torrentius and His Camera
4 The Fantasms of Andrew Oehler
5 The Sintzenich Diaries
6 The Place to Be
7 Radiator-Pipe Broadcasters
8 Mr. Greenback Goes to Town
9 Kitty Sullivan and Social Security
10 Columbia and the A-Bomb Film
11 The Zig-Zag Career of Radio Luxembourg
12 Historical Survey of Communications Breakthroughs
13 Lives of a Bengal Filmmaker: Satyajit Ray of Calcutta
14 GAMES
15 Introducing the Doggie Bag into the Soviet Union
16 The Kaufman Saga: A Cold War Idyll
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