Columbia University Protests of 1968 - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Confrontation On Campus - The Columbia Pattern for the New Protest - by Joanne Grant. Back cover: "... a definitive study of the New Protest--how it happens, why it happens, why it is happening again and again."
• The Strawberry Statement - by James Simon Kunen. This book details the particulars of the protest.
• The Strawberry Statement - film version of the above with less analysis.
• Up Against The Ivy Wall - by Jerry Avorn. Avorn was an editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator and covered far more of the events than did The Strawberry Statement, though he got a few names wrong.
• Columbia Revolt - 1968 documentary about the incident made by a collective of independent filmmakers.
• The Fall - 1969 documentary by Peter Whitehead about violence, revolution and the turbulence within late-60s America.
• Across the Universe - by Julie Taymor.
• A Time to Stir - by Paul Cronin screened as work-in-progress at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival
• Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker! - by Jim Dunnigan, with Jerry Avorn and Lenny Glynn. A 1969 board game about the demonstrations, published in the Columbia Daily Spectator.