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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: gayle k. yamada papers
Creator:
Yamada, Gayle
K.
source:
Yamada, Gayle
K.
Identifier/Call Number: M2830
Physical Description:
8 Linear Feet
(5 flat boxes, 5 cartons, 1 card box, 1 manuscript half-box, 1
map folder)
Physical Description:
960 gigabyte(s)
1 external hard drive, 1 flash drive
Date (inclusive): 1985-2008
Abstract: Oral histories, interviews, and other
primary resources relating to yamada's research for a book on women in broadcast journalism
and a documentary about Japanese American military intelligence officers during World War
II.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University
Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36-48 hours in advance. For more
information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of
intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital materials are not available in original format,
and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was given by gayle k. yamada to Stanford University in 2022.
gayle k. yamada is a filmmaker and broadcast journalist. She has directed, produced and
written programs for public television and radio for over four decades. Yamada's career
began in the traffic department of KCBS radio station in San Francisco, where she soon moved
to the news department and rose through the ranks. In the early 1980s, yamada was hired as a
researcher for "We the People" with Peter Jennings, later becoming the series' associate
producer. Her credits also include
The Spirit of Taiko,
Uncommon
Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties
,
Yan Can Cook,
Cooking at the Academy,
Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story,
Artwear: The Body Adorned,
Czeslaw Milosz: The Poet
Remembers
, and
Julia Morgan: A Life by Design. She is the
co-author, with David Hosley, of
Hard News: Women in Broadcast Journalism
(1986).
She has been elected to the Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences. Her films have been distributed for broadcast through PBS, NETA, Pacific Mountain
Network, TLC, and local public television stations, as well as screened at universities and
cultural organizations throughout the country. With business partner Dianne Fukami, yamada
founded Bridge Media, Inc., a production and consultation firm, and Media Bridges, Inc., an
educational non-profit organization. She earned her BA from the College of William and Mary,
her MA in communications is from the University of Florida, and her PhD in interdisciplinary
humanities from UC Merced.
[identification of item], gayle k. yamada papers (M2830). Department of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.
The collection contains audio and video research materials from gayle k. yamada's career as
a journalist, storyteller, and filmmaker. Series 1 contains audio interviews for the book
"Hard News: Women in Broadcast Journalism," which she co-authored with David Hosley during
the 1980s. Series 2 contains audio and video interviews with Japanese American veterans, as
well as archival video footage and research, used in her documentary "Uncommon Courage:
Patriotism and Civil Liberties" about Japanese American intelligence officers during World
War II.
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine
collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond
that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or
assigns.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Oral history
Women in television broadcasting -- United States
Japanese American soldiers
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and
internment, 1942-1945
Yamada,
Gayle K.