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Stuart Ewen (born 1945) is a New York-based author,
historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
and lecturer on
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, consumer culture, and the compliance profession. He is also a Distinguished
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at
Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...
and the
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, in the departments of
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,
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and
Media Studies Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly ...
. He is the author of six books. Under the pen name Archie Bishop, Ewen has also worked as a
graphic artist A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, p ...
,
photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographe ...
,
pamphleteer Pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets, unbound (and therefore inexpensive) booklets intended for wide circulation. Context Pamphlets were used to broadcast the writer's opinions: to articulate a polit ...
, and
agitprop Agitprop (; from rus, агитпроп, r=agitpróp, portmanteau of ''agitatsiya'', "agitation" and ''propaganda'', "propaganda") refers to an intentional, vigorous promulgation of ideas. The term originated in Soviet Russia where it referred to ...
activist for many years. As a young man, in 1964 and early 1965, Ewen was a field secretary for the
civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life of ...
organization the
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(
SNCC The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced ) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segrega ...
). After working as a volunteer in the
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in
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, he became part of the SNCC staff, earning the standard pay of $9.66 per week. After working in Columbus, he and Isaac Coleman, who was the project director, opened up a new field office in
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. In 1966, Ewen was one of the founding editors of an early underground newspaper, ''Connections'', in
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, where he was a student. In 1989, his book ''All Consuming Images'' provided the basis for
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' four-part award-winning series, "The Public Mind." In 2004, another of his books, ''PR! A Social History of Spin'', was the foundation of a four-part
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series, "
The Century of the Self ''The Century of the Self'' is a 2002 British television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It focuses on the work of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, and PR consultant Edward Bernays. In episode one, Curtis says, "This s ...
," produced by
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. "PR!" also provided the foundation for the 2018 French documentary, "Propaganda: La fabrique du consentement," directed by Jimmy Leipold and produced by Arte Television and INAfr. It was also the foundation of a 2020 Russian television documentary, "Стюарт Юэн. PR: как создается правда?" Ewen has become a spokesman against violations of
academic freedom Academic freedom is a moral and legal concept expressing the conviction that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teac ...
in the period since
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, and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center The Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center at New York University's Tamiment Library is named after Frederic Ewen, an author, teacher, and an outspoken advocate for civil liberties and intellectual freedom. A much-loved professor of literature at ...
at NYU, which is named after his great uncle, a professor at
Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus. Being New York City's first publ ...
who was forced to resign after refusing to testify before
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.About Frederic Ewen,"
NYU Libraries: Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Archives website. Accessed Dec. 12, 2013.


Personal life

He was married to Elizabeth Ewen (1943-2012), a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of
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at the
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. He has two sons, Paul Ewen and Sam Ewen, both of New York, and two grandchildren. Sam Ewen is currently a lecturer at Hunter College, Teaching media studies.


Works


Books

* ''Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture''. New York:
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(1976). .
''Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness''
(co-authored with
Elizabeth Ewen Elizabeth Ewen was a scholar of women's history, immigration, and film. She was among the first feminist historians to write about early American cinema. Ewen was a professor of American Studies at the State University of New York at Old Westbury ( ...
). New York:
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(1982). . * ''All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture''. New York:
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(1988). . * ''PR!: A Social History of Spin''. New York:
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(1996). . *''The New Media Reader: Introduction to Media Studies Critical Texts''. Boston:
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(2001). . * ''Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality'' (co-authored with
Elizabeth Ewen Elizabeth Ewen was a scholar of women's history, immigration, and film. She was among the first feminist historians to write about early American cinema. Ewen was a professor of American Studies at the State University of New York at Old Westbury ( ...
). New York:
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(2006). . **Revised ed. (2008). .


Articles and essays

* "Mass Culture, Narcissism and the Moral Economy of War". ''
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'' 44 (Summer 1980). New York
Telos Press
*''Crystallizing Public Opinion'' (Edward Bernays, Introduction by Stuart Ewen), New York: IG Publishing, 2011.


References


External links


Appearances
on
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"PR, Social Control and Revolt: An interview with Stuart Ewen,"
''State of Nature'', March 2009 * An interview with Stuart Ewen by
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,'' May 2000.
"The Stay Free Interview" Part I
Stuart Ewen talks with ''Stay Free'' magazine about his history of hype, the public relations industry, saving the planet, etc.
"Stereotype and Society"
Informative, sometimes humorous website expanding on issues raised in Ewen and Ewen's ''Typecasting, On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Ewen, Stuart Anti-corporate activists 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American historians Historians of the United States Historians of public relations American public relations people Public relations theorists Advertising theorists Mass media theorists Propaganda theorists Graduate Center, CUNY faculty Hunter College faculty State University of New York at Old Westbury faculty 1945 births Living people 20th-century American male writers