Marcia Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcia Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcia |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1531-3371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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This article revisits a forgotten, late project by the social psychologist Stanley Milgram: the 'cyranoid' studies he conducted from 1977 to 1984. These investigations, inspired by the play Cyrano de Bergerac , explored how individuals often fail to notice when others do not speak their own thoughts, but instead relay messages from a hidden source. We situate these experiments amidst the intellectual, cultural, and political concerns of late Cold…
Brainwashing the cybernetic spectator
This article argues that the mid-1960s saw a dramatic shift in how 'brainwashing' was popularly imagined, reflecting Anglo-American developments in the sciences of mind as well as shifts in mass media culture. The 1965 British film The Ipcress File (dir. Sidney J. Furie, starr. Michael Caine) provides a rich case for exploring these interconnections between mind control, mind science and media, as it exemplifies the era's innovations for depictin…
The 'Brainwashing' Dilemma
Once an emblem of Cold War paranoia, the term ‘brainwashing’ continues to appear in serious conversation. Recently, for example, it has been used by a witness to describe the kidnapping of Nigerian school girls by Boko Haram, 1 by former members of scientology to criticize that religion, 2 and by an independent filmmaker, in a documentary now being screened at film festivals, to explain the effects of right-wing media in the United States. 3 To i…
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The 'Brainwashing' Dilemma
Once an emblem of Cold War paranoia, the term ‘brainwashing’ continues to appear in serious conversation. Recently, for example, it has been used by a witness to describe the kidnapping of Nigerian school girls by Boko Haram, 1 by former members of scientology to criticize that religion, 2 and by an independent filmmaker, in a documentary now being screened at film festivals, to explain the effects of right-wing media in the United States. 3 To i…
Brainwashing the cybernetic spectator
This article argues that the mid-1960s saw a dramatic shift in how 'brainwashing' was popularly imagined, reflecting Anglo-American developments in the sciences of mind as well as shifts in mass media culture. The 1965 British film The Ipcress File (dir. Sidney J. Furie, starr. Michael Caine) provides a rich case for exploring these interconnections between mind control, mind science and media, as it exemplifies the era's innovations for depictin…
Voices off
This article revisits a forgotten, late project by the social psychologist Stanley Milgram: the 'cyranoid' studies he conducted from 1977 to 1984. These investigations, inspired by the play Cyrano de Bergerac , explored how individuals often fail to notice when others do not speak their own thoughts, but instead relay messages from a hidden source. We situate these experiments amidst the intellectual, cultural, and political concerns of late Cold…
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