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Double Exposure: How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies - Softcover

Millard, Kathryn

 
9781978809451: Double Exposure: How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 197880945X ISBN 13: 9781978809451
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Double Exposure examines the role of film in shaping social psychology’s landmark postwar experiments. We are told that most of us will inflict electric shocks on a fellow citizen when ordered to do so. Act as a brutal prison guard when we put on a uniform. Walk on by when we see a stranger in need. But there is more to the story. Documentaries that investigators claimed as evidence were central to capturing the public imagination. Did they provide an alibi for twentieth century humanity? Examining the dramaturgy, staging and filming of these experiments, including Milgram's Obedience Experiments, the Stanford Prison Experiment and many more, Double Exposure recovers a new set of narratives.

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About the Author

KATHRYN MILLARD is a writer, independent filmmaker and an honorary professor of screen and creative arts at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Screenwriting in a Digital Era. 

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
197880945X
ISBN 13 
9781978809451
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
170