Ewen, Stuart

Channels of desire : mass images and the shaping of American consciousness by Stuart Ewen( Book )

46 editions published between 1982 and 2007 in English and Japanese and held by 1,943 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico sizzles in the sun. Daytime temperatures commonly soar above [actual symbol not reproducible]. The parched, mineral earth gets less than three inches of rainfall a year on average; some years, none at all. Plants of the region even drop their leaves to hold each precious drop of moisture." "Yet this desert is one of the most fascinating and beautiful places in North America. A large variety of plants - creosote bush, the fabled boojum and numerous other cacti and succulents - flourish here, as do a wealth of birds, insects, and small mammals. Man is an uneasy resident, however, and although modern cities such as Phoenix and Tucson use artificial water supplies and air-conditioning to survive on its fringes, the natural heart of the desert still rejects all but the most intrepid sojourners." "Two who know this desert well are Jack Dykinga and Charles Bowden. Each has confronted it on foot over the course of many years. Bowden, who now lives in Tucson, recently said, "I go to it like a thirsty animal goes to water. Something happens when you walk for a hundred miles in the desert and don't see a footprint. Once I turned around and saw someone else's footprint and it really shook me up. Then I realized it was my own."" "No casual visitor, Bowden expresses his feelings and experiences in words. He looks not only down at his own footprints, but also back in the historical record - to the Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca, to an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest who cast for souls for seventeen years in Baja California. He recalls a Sand Papago Indian shaman who knows the desert like a medicine chest and plans to live forever; and he affectionately remembers both the madness and the sanity of his late friend, desert lover, and fellow pleader for preservation, Edward Abbey." "Dykinga recaptures for us the way the desert looks and feels in exquisite color photographs. He has walked and sweated and camped the length and breadth of this place and brought back hundreds of brilliant large-format camera views. More than 120 are preserved here - most never before published." "Interwoven together, the personal visions of these two remarkable observers evoke the Sonoran Desert with extraordinary power. We may or may not wish to be in the desert as they have been, but in these pages we will come as close as it is possible to being there."--Jacket

Captains of consciousness : advertising and the social roots of the consumer culture by Stuart Ewen( Book )

51 editions published between 1974 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 1,824 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume provides a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the 20th century. It includes a history of ways businesses have refined their search for new consumers

PR! : a social history of spin by Stuart Ewen( Book )

18 editions published between 1996 and 2003 in English and Japanese and held by 1,346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this long-awaited, pathbreaking book, Stuart Ewen tells the story of the Age unfolding: the social conditions that brought it about; the ideas that inspired the strategies of public relations specialists; the growing use of images as tools of persuasion; and, finally, the ways that the rise of public relations interacted with the changing dynamics of public life itself. He takes us on a vivid journey into the thinking of PR practitioners - from Edward Bernays to George Gallup - exploring some of the most significant campaigns to mold the public mind, and revealing disturbing trends that have persisted to the present day. Using previously confidential sources, and with the aid of dozens of illustrations from the past hundred years, Ewen sheds unsparing light on the contours and contradictions of American democracy on the threshold of a new millennium

All consuming images : the politics of style in contemporary culture by Stuart Ewen( Book )

37 editions published between 1984 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 1,327 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Depicts the evolution of an increasingly style-conscious society from the time when style was an exclusive prerogative of aristocratic elites to today when it fascinates millions

Typecasting : on the arts & sciences of human inequality : a history of dominant ideas by Elizabeth Ewen( Book )

21 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 792 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this work of popular history, Ewen & Ewen expose the pivotal developments that have made stereotypes a persistent, common language. Moving across centuries and continents in thirty eloquent vignettes, their journey uncovers the incubation of modern stereotypes in the halls of science and aesthetics and traces their materialization in the popular imagination. Their detective work in museum archives, popular magazines, and film alike, uncovers how stereotype has served as the groundwork of power in the modern world. -- BOOK JACKET

Social textures of Western civilization: the lower depths by Michael Cherniavsky( Book )

4 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and held by 197 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ethos : a time for change( Visual )

2 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 143 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hosted by actor and activist Woody Harrelson, Ethos lifts the lid on a Pandora's Box of systemic issues that guarantee failure in every aspect of human lives, from the environment to democracy and our own personal liberty: From terrifying conflicts of interests in politics to unregulated corporate power, to a media in the hands of massive conglomerates, and a military industrial complex that virtually owns our representatives. With interviews from some of today's leading thinkers and source material from the finest documentary film makers of our times Ethos examines and unravels these complex relationships, and offers a solution, a simple but powerful way for you to change this system, through consumer activism

The ad and the ego : truth and consequences( Visual )

6 editions published between 1996 and 2007 in English and held by 142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Discusses advertising in the United States and its impact on society including the role of images from ads in contemporary life, the power of modern advertising, and the influence of advertising saturation on world view and self-image. Leading media critics show how living in an environment saturated with advertising creates a psychology of need and how advertising has invaded even the most intimate aspects of life

Capitalisme by Ilan Ziv( Visual )

1 edition published in 2014 in French and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Les six épisodes de la série Capitalisme, tournée dans vingt-deux pays, nous entraînent dans une enquête captivante, au fil de cinq cents ans d'histoire, avec pour guides éclairants des anthropologues, des historiens et des économistes renommés, dont Robert Boyer ou Thomas Piketty. Sur les traces d'un amiral chinois, des geôles d'esclaves au Ghana à la rencontre d'Indiens Maijunas, et d'une rive à l'autre de l'Atlantique, les théories d'hier nouent un dialogue fructueux avec l'actualité et les réalités contemporaines. Depuis les origines jusqu'à la mondialisation, le décryptage des mécanismes d'un système qui détermine nos vies et survit malgré la crise." (Source : arte.tv)

Typen & Stereotype : die Geschichte des Vorurteils by Stuart Ewen( Book )

4 editions published in 2009 in German and held by 37 WorldCat member libraries worldwide