Elizabeth Ewen

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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. [1] Ewen was a professor of American Studies at the State University of New York at Old Westbury (SUNY). [2]

Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievement over a period of time, the examination of individual and groups of women of historical significance, and the effect that historical events have had on women. Inherent in the study of women's history is the belief that more traditional recordings of history have minimized or ignored the contributions of women to different fields and the effect that historical events had on women as a whole; in this respect, women's history is often a form of historical revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the traditional historical consensus.

Immigration Movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native

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Film sequence of images that give the impression of movement

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed in rapid succession. The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects.

Noted film historian Robert Sklar described Ewen's 1980 article, “City Lights: Immigrant Women and the Rise of the Movies,” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, as 'the first significant writing by a historian on early American cinema to follow the author's and [Garth] Jowett's books.” [3] Ewen's book, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars, examined the role of cinema in the lives of immigrant girls and women in New York City's Lower East Side. [4] Filmmaker Ellen Noonan has explained that the book was the inspiration for the 1993 documentary Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl. [5]

Robert Anthony Sklar was an American historian specializing in the history of cinema.

Lower East Side Neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City

The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan, roughly located between the Bowery and the East River, and Canal Street and Houston Street. Traditionally an immigrant, working class neighborhood, it began rapid gentrification in the mid-2000s, prompting the National Trust for Historic Preservation to place the neighborhood on their list of America's Most Endangered Places.

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]

Stuart Ewen is a New York-based author, historian and lecturer on media, consumer culture, and the compliance profession. He is also a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, in the departments of History, Sociology and Media Studies. He is the author of six books. Under the pen name Archie Bishop, Ewen has also worked as a graphic artist, photographer, pamphleteer, and agitprop activist for many years.

Rosalyn Fraad "Ros" Baxandall,, was an American historian of women's activism and an active New York City feminist.

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

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

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  1. ↑ Louise McReynolds (2003). Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era. Cornell University Press. pp. 265–. ISBN   0-8014-4027-0.
  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,
  4. ↑ Susan L. Roberson (1998). Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. University of Missouri Press. pp. 119–. ISBN   978-0-8262-1176-7.
  5. ↑ http://nowandthen.ashp.cuny.edu/2012/06/remembering-elizabeth-ewen/
  6. ↑ Sammy Richard Danna (1992). Advertising and Popular Culture: Studies in Variety and Versatility. Popular Press. pp. 23–. ISBN   978-0-87972-528-0.
  7. ↑ Jean-Christophe Agnew; Roy Rosenzweig (15 April 2008). A Companion to Post-1945 America. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 250–. ISBN   978-1-4051-2319-8.
  8. ↑ "Picture Windows: Suburbs Happen".Journal of Urban Affairs Volume 24, Issue 2
  9. ↑ Steven J. Ross (1999). Working-class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America. Princeton University Press. pp. 287–. ISBN   0-691-02464-2.
  10. ↑ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=157878129
  11. ↑ Laura R. Prieto (2001). At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America. Harvard University Press. pp. 256–. ISBN   978-0-674-00486-3.
  12. ↑ Institute of Contemporary Jewry The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ezra Mendelsohn Professor of History; Institute of Contemporary Jewry The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Richard I. Cohen Professor of History (30 November 1990). Studies in Contemporary Jewry : Volume VI: Art and Its Uses. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 362–. ISBN   978-0-19-506188-8.
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