Interviews from Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011), 2004-2006
Collection context
- Creator:
- Lee, Jonathan, 1953- and Shapiro, Ben, 1959-
- Extent:
- 750 Gigabytes 74 digital files
- Language:
- English .
- Scope and content:
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Interviews from Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011) contain 37 unedited, full-length interviews conducted between 2004-2006 with individuals, each of whom had an important connection to Paul Goodman at one point in their lives. The interviewees are from a range of fields, including Ned Rorem, Grace Paley, Noam Chomsky, Morris Dickstein, Richard Flacks, Sally, Susan and Daisy Goodman (Paul's widow and two daughters), Vera Williams, Jacqueline Gourevitch, and Nicholas von Hoffman. The interviews were later edited to produce the documentary film "Paul Goodman Changed My Life", produced and directed by Jonathan Lee, produced and edited by Kimberly Reed, photographed by Benjamin Shapiro, and distributed by Zeitgeist Films in 2011.
- Biographical / historical:
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Paul Goodman (1911-1972) is an important figure in 20th-century intellectual and cultural history and the interviews make up a rich composite view into the intellectual world of the 1950s to the early 1970s.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Researchers must visit the RBML reading room and to listen to digital audio materials on a locked-down laptop.
Interview without signed release form is restricted: Heims, Neil. 38 Signed release forms from the interviewees are on file. Edmund White's signed release form is on file, but we do not have his interview file.
- Terms of access:
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Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
- Preferred citation:
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Interviews from Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011); Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
- Location of this collection:
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