Description
| Product ID: | 9781978809451 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Double Exposure |
| Subtitle: | How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies |
| Authors: | Author: Kathryn Millard |
| Page Count: | 170 |
| Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism, Society and culture: general, Media studies, Psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Society & culture: general, Media studies, Psychology, Social, group or collective psychology |
| Description: | Double Exposure examines the role of cinema in shaping social psychology’s landmark post-war experiments. The most influential experiments left a trail of visual evidence central to capturing the public imagination. Examining the dramaturgy, staging and filming of these experiments, Double Exposure recovers a new set of narratives. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Rutgers University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Rutgers University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-03-18 |
