Norman Fruchter

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Norman Fruchter is an American writer, filmmaker, and academic.

Life[]

He graduated from Rutgers University, in 1959, where he edited the literary magazine,[1] Anthologist.

He was arrested protesting with CORE and James Farmer, Bayard Rustin, Rev. Donald Harrington, and Michael Harrington, at the 1964 New York World's Fair.[2] From 1960 to 1962, he served as assistant to the editor of New Left Review.[3] He was an editor at Studies on the Left, (1959–1967).[4]

Newsreel[]

Prior to becoming a member of Newsreel which was founded in 1967, Fruchter and Robert Machover made 'Troublemakers', an award-winning documentary about an organizing effort by members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)in the Black wards of Newark, New Jersey.[5] As part of their mission to instigate social change, members of Newsreel would present films to political organizations and community groups across the United States.[6] The retrospective, Exit Art / The First World had Newsreel members Norman Fruchter, Roz Payne and Lynn Phillips discuss the films.[7] He was a member of SDS along with Tom Hayden, Jesse Allen, Robert Kramer, also full-time organizers for the group: Carol Glassman; Terry Jefferson; Constance Brown; Corinna Fales; and Derek Winans. He was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee.[8] He co-founded and co-directed Independence High School, an alternative high school for drop-outs in Newark, New Jersey, throughout most of the 1970s.

He recommended Christine Choy to the Newsreel group, after meeting her at Ironbound neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey.[9][10]

Education[]

He was a member of , in Brooklynfrom 1983-94. He helped to form Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which sued the city of New York over inadequate school funding. He co-founded and headed the Institute for Education and Social Policy at New York Universityfrom 1987-1996.[11][12]

Family[]

He married Rachel G. Fruchter (d. July 12, 1997), who was member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology State University of New York for nearly 25 years.[13] After her untimely death he married Heather Lewis, a former Newsreel member and school board colleague. Fruchter has two children, Lev (born 1967) and Chenda (born 1968) and four grandchildren: Zoe and Ella Fruchter and Jack and Benjy Fives.

Awards[]

He won the first Edward Lewis Wallant Award.[14] His documentary, "Troublemakers" was selected for premiere screening at the New York Film Festival and subsequently featured at film festivals around the world.

Works[]

Novels[]

  • Coat Upon a Stick. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. 1962. ASIN B000O3Q0HU.
  • Single File. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1970.

Academic papers[]

Commentary[]

Profile of The Ginger Man's author J. P. Donleavy.
Review of the film The Savage Eye.
Cited in: Breines, Wini (1989), "Politics as community: participatory democracy", in Breines, Wini (ed.), Community and organization in the New Left, 1962-1968: the great refusal, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, pp. 61–62, ISBN 9780813514031. Preview.
Cited in: Lazere, Donald (1987), "Introduction: entertainment as social control", in Lazere, Donald (ed.), American media and mass culture: left perspectives, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, p. 9, ISBN 9780520044968. Preview.

Filmography[]

  • Race Against Prime Time - ( Narrator(- Narration) / 1984 / Released / Albany Video )
  • The People's War - ( Director / 1970 / Released / )[15]
  • WE GOT TO LIVE HERE, Robert Machover & Norman Fruchter, (1965, 16mm B&W/sound, 20 min.)
  • Troublemakers, Robert Machover & Norman Fruchter, (1966, 16mm B&W/sound, 54 min.)[16]
  • FALN (1965), Peter Gessner, Norman Fruchter and Robert Machover, Robert Kramer
  • Summer '68 (1969)[17][18]

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~antho/home.html
  2. ^ R. S. Shapiro. (April 23, 1964). "UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ARRESTED AT FAIR: ONE HELD IN $2,000 BAIL ON ASSAULT CHARGE". Rutgers Daily TARGUM. Archived from the original on 2006-09-22. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
  3. ^ "New Left Reviewed". Commentary Magazine. March 1964.
  4. ^ Staughton Lynd, Andrej Grubačić, Denis (INT) O'Hearn (2008). Wobblies and Zapatistas. PM Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-60486-041-2.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Robert Kramer derniere route". Le Monde. November 13, 1999.
  6. ^ admin (21 March 2011). "Groups". www.experimentaltvcenter.org. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2009-05-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ ""Subversive Influences" - House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)". www.aavw.org. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  9. ^ Scott MacDonald (1998). A critical cinema. University of California Press. pp. 200–201. ISBN 978-0-520-20943-5. Norman Fruchter.
  10. ^ Christine Choy. "DRAFT OF NEWSREEL/THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL ARTICLE FOR YAMAGATA FILM FESTIVAL". Newsreel.
  11. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-19. Retrieved 2009-05-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ "Rethinking Schools Online". www.rethinkingschools.org. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  13. ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths FRUCHTER, RACHEL G." The New York Times. July 15, 1997.
  14. ^ "Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies". www.hartford.edu. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  15. ^ "YIDFF: Publications: YIDFF 2001 Official Catalog". www.yidff.jp. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  16. ^ "40 Frames - Screening Archives - Winter/Spring 2001". www.40frames.org. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  17. ^ Linda Dittmar; Gene Michaud (1990). From Hanoi to Hollywood. Rutgers University Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-8135-1587-8.
  18. ^ Summer '68. 5 February 1994. OCLC 31631990.

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