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Stuart Ewen Reads The New York Post: Fantasy, Morality and Authority
Treading through the streets of New York City as his artistic alias Archie Bishop, Stuart Ewen critiques the constant fear and sensationalism the New York Post brings into our lives. Through a series of street interviews, Ewen (as Bishop) reveals the deeper fractures of our social consciousness that have been perpetuated by the Post’s bright red fonts, excessive exclamation points, and outrageous headlines, that command us to fear, read, and obey. Ewen maintains, as we continue our consumption of this media we sink further into a vicious cycle were the most exaggerated headlines of the Post form the nightmare that we come to call our daily lives. This tape perfectly embodies the media reformist spirit that founded Paper Tiger and that still keeps our cameras going today. Stuart Ewin is a Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College in New York City. He has published several important texts dealing with issues of media and cultural critique including: PR! A Social History of Spin, All Consuming Images: On the Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture, and Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness.
1982 TRT: 28 minutes #14