Double Exposure : How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies / Kathryn Millard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millard, Kathryn, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology--Experiments.

Social psychology.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Documentary films--Production and direction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

1. Setting the Scene

2. "You're an Actor Now"

3. New Haven Noir

4. Good or Bad Samaritans?

5. Doing Time

6. Crime Scenes

7. Restaging the Psychology Experiment

8. "I Was the SYSTEM"

9. Shifting the Story

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Millard, Kathryn Double Exposure

ISBN:

9781978809475

1978809476

9781978809499

1978809492

OCLC:

1298394389