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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 05:32:53 -0600
From: "Steven Mintz, U. Houston" <HIST4@Jetson.UH.EDU>
Subject: Ken Burns's The Civil War
From: neabo01%compserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de@UICVM.UIC.EDU (H. Borchers)
For a lecture I'm looking for articles, publications,
evaluations, in short: all kinds of material, relating
to Ken Burns' documentary THE CIVIL WAR -- and to the
success the film has had with US television viewers.
Thank you for your help!
Hans Borchers
University of Tuebingen
Dept. of American Studies
Germany
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 12:07:12 -0600
From: "Steven Mintz, U. Houston" <HIST4@Jetson.UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ken Burns's Civil War
From: Rollins%osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu@UICVM.UIC.EDU
Dear Hans,
Good to see your query on the board! Hope all goes well with
you! Here are two standard items for research on THE CIVIL WAR:
1. Contact PBS and ask for a "Press Kit." The Kit will have three or
four stills, sample reviews, profiles on the filmmaker and on some of
the actors/technicians/archives/historians, etc. While such items are
always self-serving, they often provide production details you will find
nowhere else.
Here is the telephone number for PBS:(703)739-5000
2. PBS may have the number for Burns' production company and he may, with
all the money he has made in the last five years, have a "researcher" within
the company or a publicist who could supply you with reviews.
3. The Massachusetts Council for the Humanitiesmam conducted a special
conference on Film and History which featured Burns and his epic. The
Council offices are in Boston:(617)
4. The Film people at the National Endowment for the Humanities are very
proud of the series. They received more kudos for it than any other series
they have supported over they years. A very helpful person there is as
follows:
Mr. James Daugherty
General Programs Div.
NEH
1100 Penn. Ave, NW--Rm 424
Washington, DC 20506
(202)786-0267
5. Once you have collected your set of reviews, I would love to have a clopy.
Should you write a really good essay on the series, please share it with me.
I would like to assemble essays on it and other recent Civil War films for
The Popular Peress.
I look foraward to seeing you in May when the American Studies Association
of Germany meets on your campus. Please look for the best tap room for us to
talk and dance with the assembled men and women of American Studies-Germany
as per our meeting in Paderborn!
Will you attend the Popular Culture meetings in Kalamazoo and
Chicago in the Spring?
Must close......
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