Double Exposure

How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-9788-0946-8
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 3 g

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 the Stanford Prison Experiment and many more, Double Exposure recovers a new set of narratives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Millard, Kathryn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Über Autor(innen)

KATHRYN MILLARD is a writer, independent filmmaker and an honorary professor of screen and creative arts at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her body of screen work spans award-winning feature dramas, documentaries and essay films. She is the author of Screenwriting in a Digital Era.