Michael Shamberg
Michael Shamberg | |
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| Born | 1945 (age 78–79)? |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer, former Time–Life correspondent |
| Spouse(s) | Megan Williams (1974–1991; divorced) Carla Santos Shamberg |
| Children | 3 |
Michael Shamberg (born 1945?)[1] is an American film producer and former Time–Life correspondent.
Life and career
His credits include Erin Brockovich, A Fish Called Wanda, Garden State, Gattaca, Pulp Fiction and The Big Chill. His production companies include Jersey Films, with Stacey Sher and Danny DeVito, and, as of 2015[update], Double Feature Films, with Stacey Sher.
In the 1960s and 1970s, counter-culture video collectives extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies. In 1970, Shamberg co-founded a video collective called Raindance Corporation, which published a newspaper-magazine called Radical Software. Raindance Corporation later became TVTV, or Top Value Television. Shamberg and his first wife Megan Williams were founding members of TVTV.[2] The collective believed new technology could effect social change. An example was Shamberg's work on In Hiding: A Conversation with Abbie Hoffman, broadcast on Public-access television station WNET/13 in May 1975.[2]
Shamberg described his approach as "guerrilla television" (the title of his 1971 book) because, despite its strategies and tactics similar to warfare, guerrilla television is non-violent and he saw it as a means to break through the barriers imposed by broadcast television, which he called beast television.[citation needed]
His TVTV group's documentary Lord of the Universe, 1974, won a DuPont-Columbia Award in 1975.[3] The group urged for the use of Sony's Portapak video camera, introduced in 1968, to be merged with the documentary film style and television, and later pioneer use of 3/4" video in their works.[citation needed]
Shamberg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, MO.[4]
References
- ^ Michael Shamberg Biography (1945?-)
- ^ a b Teasdale, Parry D. (1999). Videofreex. Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press Corp. p. 214. ISBN 1-883789-21-4.
- ^ Journalism School, Columbia University. All DuPont-Columbia Award winners at Columbia University
- ^ Rea, Barbara. "Totenberg to headline annual Founders Day celebration". Washington University in St. Louis.
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