Dr. Bernard Timberg, Associate Professor
Education:
PH.D. interdisciplinary humanities Ph.D with Radio-Television-Film home base, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN 1979
MS Mass Communication and Journalism, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY 1974 BA Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature major, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 1971, with junior year abroad in Biblical literature and archeology at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1966–67, and film production studies at San Francisco State University 1967–73
Production Background:
Writer-producer of over fifty radio, television, and multi-media productions in 16mm film, small format video, and audio/CD formats. Most of these were independent productions, many produced in association with or aired on local, regional, or national NPR or PBS stations. Research Topics and Areas of Interest:
Film and television production as well as film/television theory/crit, innovative pedagogy, fair use in intellectual property law, ethnicity in film and popular culture studies (with specialities in Jewish Studies, American civil rights history, and Israeli/Palestinian film), oral history and folklore, life review and life story (individually commissioned or as part of Foxfire or StoryBook kinds of projects), indepth feature writing in print journalism and documentary film
Research Publications:
PUBLICATIONS IN LAST 5 YEARS FROM VITA OF BERNARD TIMBERG:
BOOK
Television Talk: A History the TV Talk Show. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002. 364 pp. See http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/timtel.html
BOOK CHAPTERS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES, AND PUBLISHED REVIEWS
Commentary/book review on Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen and the Original Tonight Show by Ben Alba, Prometheus Books, 2006, Television Quarterly 36:2 (Winter 2006), 67-70.
"Bill Moyers" (987 words), "Merv Griffin" (991 words), "Arlene Francis" (1531 words), and "The Television Talk Show" (6702 words, level-3 interpretive essay), The Encyclopedia of Television, Second Edition, Horace Newcomb, ed. Chicago: Museum of Broadcast Communications Publication, 2nd ed. 2005.
“Bill Moyers: Marshall, Texas,” Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Review of I’ll Be Right Back: Memories of TV’s Greatest Talk Show by Mike Douglas, Simon and Schuster, 1999, Television Quarterly 31:1 (Spring 2005): 99-102.
ARTICLES
Work in progress, “Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the Jewish Satirical Tradition,” presented in the WesSeminar, Wesleyan University,
“Fair Use is a Right, Not a Defense” – special edition of A Fair Use Declaration of Rights with PDF illustration. Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and the Media, Vol 5:4. Web Publication Special Conference Issue, November 17, 2006. http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=2027
“Deportation Raids and Roundups Are Wrong,” advocacy piece, in Raleigh News Observer, November 3, 2006.
“Balance, Talent Steer Spirit of Adventure: A Profile of Erick Green,” Pieces of Eight, the East Carolina University Faculty and Staff Newspaper, November 3, 2006, pp. 7, 12.
http://www.ecu.edu/news/poe/1106/timberg.cfm
“A Fair Use Declaration of Rights,” Carolina Communication Annual, September 2006 distributed at Carolina Communication Conference, Charleston, SC, September 15, 2006.
Contributions to Myths Americana, John Shelton Lawrence blog, http://myths-americana.livejournal.com, “Owning the Words ‘Super Hero’ – Can You Really Do It?” (513 words), April 3, 2006 @11:24 am; “A Statement of Rights for Scholars of the Moving Image” (264 words), April 4, 2006 @ 10:09 am; “This Just In - Edward R. Murrow’s Spirit Alive and Well at the Academy Awards--with John Stewart (1005 words), March 3, 2006 @ 10:41 am. The April 4th contribution was furthered developed in the Carolina Communication Annual article, “A Fair Use Declaration of Rights.”
“Living on Borrowed Time – Tryon House: A Historic Apartment Building Faces An Uncertain Future” Uptown Magazine, Part 1, March, 2006, pp. 24-26 (http://www.uptownclt.com/mar_tryonhouse.html#to%20the%20top) and “Historically Profitable - Tryon House Saved Worth More Than Tryon House Destroyed,” Part 2 is series,” April, 2006, pp. 18-20.
“What’s So Funny About Being Bipolar: The Depression Bipolar Support Alliance of Charlotte, North Carolina,” In Search of Fatherhood 7:3 (Summer 2005): 41--46. www.insearchoffatherhood.blogspot.org
“Most Overrated and Underrated TV Talk Show of All Time,” Forbes’ American Heritage Magazine, October 2004: 40-41.
“What’s So Funny? A Television Historian and Media Critic Examines the Powerful Effect of TV Comedy on Politics,” Television Quarterly 35:1 (Fall 2004): 20-25. http://www.tvquarterly.net/tvq_35_1/p20.html
“Brown v. Board of Ed Was Almost from Carolina,” Raleigh-Durham Independent 21:3 (February 4, 2004): 12-13. www.indyweek.com/durham/2004-02-04/triangles3.html.
“Fired—and Changed Forever: Tough Transitions in Tough Times,” cover story, Charlotte Creative Loafing, March 10-16, 2004: 27-31.
“Who Speaks for CBS? Edward R. Murrow’s Most Powerful—and Uncredited—Documentary,” Television Quarterly 33:1 (Spring 2002): 24-33.
“Not All Jews Support Israeli Occupation,” Charlotte Observer, September 10, 2003.
“Live From Baghdad,” on James Zogby’s Person-to-Person Telecast on Abu Dhabi Television from Davidson College to the University of Baghdad the Week Before the Invasion of Iraq,” Charlotte Creative Loafing, May 14-20, 2003: 16, 24.
Courses Taught:
BASIC REPORTING COMM 2320
ADVANCED REPORTING COMM 3320
Honors Interdisciplinary Film Seminar HNRS 2316
Additional information:
"I enjoy working in a program building environment, and working with courses and productions that connect theory and practice, so the School of Communication is an ideal place for the intersection of my professional interests."
