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- Title
A Conversation with Erik Barnouw.
- Abstract
The article presents an autobiographical account of the life of pioneer U.S. broadcasting historian Erik Barnouw. He narrates that when he graduated from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, the head of the English department offered him a graduate fellowship and the job of an instructor, a scholar, a professor at the University. But he refused saying that no, that is not what he wanted to be. Indeed, he had been active in drama and had written poetry for some magazines so he wanted to go in that direction. This happened to be 1929. It was a tremendous boom period; everybody had a job at hand. He also had three offers: one, he was invited by Time Inc. to become a writer on a new magazine to be called "Fortune"; tow, he had an offer to become an assistant stage manager in a stock company; three, he had won a fellowship to travel abroad for a year without any strings attached. These were all marvelous and he decided to do all of them one by one.
- Subjects
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL memory; BARNOUW, Erik, 1908-2001; BROADCASTING industry history; HISTORIANS; CELEBRITIES' writings; SELF-portraits
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 1991, Vol 21, Issue 2/3, p96
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/flm.1991.a395793