Background
Steven N. Lipkin was born on February 15, 1951, in Akron, Ohio, United States.
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
The University of Iowa where Steven Lipkin received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208, United States
Northwestern University where Steven Lipkin received his Bachelor of Science degree.
(Analyzing docudrama as a mode of argument, Steven N. Lipk...)
Analyzing docudrama as a mode of argument, Steven N. Lipkin explores the ethical, historical, and ideological functions of docudrama to discover why these films based on true stories offer such appealing storylines. That appeal, Lipkin discovers, is rooted in docudrama's representation of actual people and events by means of melodramatic narrative structures that play on the emotions of the viewer.
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Emotional-Logic-Television-Persuasive/dp/0809324091
2002
(1924. Hollywood producer and studio owner David Parrish d...)
1924. Hollywood producer and studio owner David Parrish dies suddenly under suspicious circumstances during a weekend party hosted by wealthy industrial magnate Arthur Crews, Parrish's business partner. The world is told Parrish succumbed to an attack of food poisoning. 1946. After he survives the war flying B-17s over Nazi Germany, Captain Robert Parrish returns home to learn that he is the beneficiary of a large trust fund created anonymously, at the time of his father's death. The bequest has deadly consequences that force Parrish to seek out the source of the trust. As he learns more about how his father died, he finds himself in as much, if not more danger than he ever faced in combat.
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Remembrances-Steve-Lipkin-ebook/dp/B07JH3RQK5/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&qid=1611507955&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Lipkin&s=books&sr=1-12&text=Steve+Lipkin
2018
(After an injury affects her vision, 14-year-old Sam Willi...)
After an injury affects her vision, 14-year-old Sam Williams is the only human who can see the trail of clues that will unravel the puzzle behind the disappearance of her great aunt more than fifty years earlier. Sam and her mother, Ellen, arrive in Glen River, Illinois to begin a new life. Ellen starts a new job working for her Uncle Mitch, helping him run his salvage business. Sam takes on the challenges of a new high school. They settle into the very first home that Mitch Williams and his long-deceased wife Millie owned in Glen River. An injury after a violent encounter with a school bully enables Sam to see things that she quickly realizes are visible to no one else. These visions make no sense until Sam learns that her great Aunt Millie did not die as she has been led to believe, but disappeared one day in 1964.
https://www.amazon.com/Canino-Every-Ghost-Dog-Has/dp/1798413167/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&qid=1611507778&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Lipkin&s=books&sr=1-3&text=Steve+Lipkin
2019
(Charlie Hastings in most ways is a pretty normal kid, wit...)
Charlie Hastings in most ways is a pretty normal kid, with one big exception - he can do math like it was a language he was born with. His ability to solve math mysteries helps him not at all, though, when it comes to the much harder problem of figuring out his feelings for Claire Hopkins. He finds the hardest problem he has to solve is to get the love of his life to love him back.
https://www.amazon.com/Charlies-Lessons-Steve-Lipkin/dp/1097605612/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&qid=1611507955&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Lipkin&s=books&sr=1-5&text=Steve+Lipkin
2019
(They saw the murder of their parents and scores of people...)
They saw the murder of their parents and scores of people from their town. They had to act. They did. 1940. The Nazis occupy Montmarie, the small town where the teenaged Jean-Paul Arnaud and Michelle Kaplan have begun to fall in love. An informer discloses that the town's Jewish families have tried to hide in the Arnaud's barn. Michelle, Jean-Paul, and Jean-Paul's older brother, Charles, witness the round-up and execution of their parents. The three teenagers escape, seek refuge in the woods, and resist the Occupation.
https://www.amazon.com/Betrayals-Parrish-Novel-Steve-Lipkin/dp/B08DBW121Z/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1611507327&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Lipkin&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Steve+Lipkin
2020
(The crimes that created the idyllic coastal town of Spiri...)
The crimes that created the idyllic coastal town of Spirit Cove return in force to remind its current residents of the buried truth all would rather ignore, or forget. Visitors Sam Williams and her mother, Ellen, find their own survival embroiled in the newly-posted dispatches that threaten to rip the town apart. Her mother and her grandmother had a bitter fight twenty years ago. They've not spoken since. They've not seen each other. Now Sam Williams wants to find her grandmother and heal the deep cut that still wounds her family.
https://www.amazon.com/Dispatches-Spirit-Cove-Williams-Mystery/dp/B084WH2W2P/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1611507677&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Lipkin&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Steve+Lipkin
2020
(When a devastating episode in the past threatens to destr...)
When a devastating episode in the past threatens to destroy the present lives of those closest to her, Sam Williams is the only person who can see what happened then, and what must happen now to free those she loves from the damages the old terrors continue to inflict. Several months earlier, just as their school year ended, Sam's friend and classmate, Karen Spencer, mysteriously disappeared. While the search began to find Karen, Sam and her mother, Ellen, began a search of their own in northern California to uncover the fate of Ted and Ann Williams, Ellen's parents. Now, as this third installment in the Sam Williams series begins, Sam and Ellen expect to testify in the upcoming murder trial of Carol Sundberg.
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-River-Bridge-Williams-Mystery-ebook/dp/B08LL878WZ/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&qid=1611507955&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Lipkin&s=books&sr=1-11&text=Steve+Lipkin
2021
(The book series Tunnels consists of three books. At the d...)
The book series Tunnels consists of three books. At the depth of the Depression, the war between rival Chicago gangs led by Carmine Petrocelli and Isadore "Izzy" Ellis culminates in a catastrophic battle at Petrocelli's Wisconsin estate. Years later, two small boys stumble across a gangster's car buried since 1933 in a hillside on their uncle's farm. As an investigation begins the boys find they must confront why the old car came to be there, what else was hidden with it, and those left who knows.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KRPPMCT?ref_=dbs_p_mng_rwt_ser_shvlr&storeType=ebooks
Steven N. Lipkin was born on February 15, 1951, in Akron, Ohio, United States.
Steven Lipkin began his studies at Northwestern University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1973. Then he continued his education at the University of Iowa and obtained a Master of Arts degree in 1974 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1977.
Steven Lipkin, straight after receiving his bachelor's degree, began his teaching career. He joined the University of Iowa as an instructor in rhetoric, broadcasting, and film in 1973 working in this position till 1977. Then, with a doctor's degree, he became an assistant professor of speech communication and theater arts at a college of East Stroudsburg University. In 1981 he joined the School of Communication at Western Michigan University as an assistant professor, the position he held till 1986. From 1986 till 2002 he worked as an associate professor then becoming a professor.
In addition to teaching, Lipkin published extensively on films based on true stories. His most known books include the book series Tunnels, Deadly Remembrances, Charlie's Lessons, Canino: Every (Ghost) Dog Has Its Day, Dispatches From Spirit Cove: A Sam Williams Mystery, and Betrayals: A Parrish Novel. His most recent novel is Beneath The River Bridge: A Sam Williams Mystery (2021).
Lipkin is also a contributor to books, including Current Research in Film, Volume 2, Handbook of American Film Genres, Beyond the Stars III: The Material World in American Popular Film, and Why Docudrama?, and to periodicals, including Journal of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, Creative Screenwriting, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Michigan Academician, Quarterly Review of Film Studies, and Images: Journal of Film and Popular Culture.
(When a devastating episode in the past threatens to destr...)
2021(After an injury affects her vision, 14-year-old Sam Willi...)
2019(The crimes that created the idyllic coastal town of Spiri...)
2020(Charlie Hastings in most ways is a pretty normal kid, wit...)
2019(They saw the murder of their parents and scores of people...)
2020(Analyzing docudrama as a mode of argument, Steven N. Lipk...)
2002(The book series Tunnels consists of three books. At the d...)
(1924. Hollywood producer and studio owner David Parrish d...)
2018Steven Lipkin believes feature films and made-for-television movies based on true stories offer viewers one of the most appealing, and at the same time, one of the most unexplored modes of film and television discourse. He found it fruitful to approach docudrama as a mode of argument, examining its ethical, historical, and ideological influences on the substantial audience it reaches. His work addresses a central question: why does docudrama offer such an appealing form of storytelling? He believes that the appeal of docudrama inheres within its very form of presentation. In connecting incredibly diverse kinds of dramatic and documentary material these works, he finds, consistently argue for a moral view of the reality-based subject matter.
Quotations: "Docudramas ride the fence between narrative and documentary modes, blending the strategies of both, belonging wholly to neither."
Steven Lipkin is a member of the University Film and Video Association and Society for Cinema Studies.
Steven Lipkin married Linda Sawyer in August 1979. The marriage produced two children, Benjamin and Evan.