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.

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