Elizabeth Ewen

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Elizabeth Ewen was a scholar of

SUNY).[2]

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Filmmaker Ellen Noonan has explained that the book was the inspiration for the 1993 documentary Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl.[5]

Elizabeth Ewen authored several books with her husband,

media historian Stuart Ewen,[6] and her colleague Rosalyn Baxandall,[7][8] including Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness (1992),[9] Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (2000), Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality (2006).[10]

Ewen's work is frequently cited by contemporary historians.[11][12]

Elizabeth Ewen died May 29, 2012, in Manhattan, New York.[13]

Selected publications

  • Elizabeth Ewen, “City Lights: Immigrant Women and the Rise of the Movies,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 5, no. 3, 1980.
  • Elizabeth Ewen (4 January 2008). Picture Windows. Basic Books. .

References

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  2. ^ " No ____ Need Apply". New York Times. By DAVID BERREBY, February 4, 2007
  3. ^ Robert Sklar, "Oh! Althusser!: Historiography and the Rise of Cinema Studies ," Radical History Review 41 (1988): 27,
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  5. ^ "Remembering Elizabeth Ewen | Now and then: An American Social History Project blog".
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  8. ^ "Picture Windows: Suburbs Happen".Journal of Urban Affairs Volume 24, Issue 2
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  10. ^ "ELIZABETH R. EWEN Obituary (2012) New York Times".
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  13. ^ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=157878129 "ELIZABETH R. EWEN - Obituary".