Author: Marie Cronqvist File Type: pdf What remains after war? In the world wars more than 120 million people died an untimely or violent death. The terrible experience of mass death remained seared into the cultural narrative for years. The cultural output repeated, reinforced, or renegotiated peoples beliefs about war and suffering, turning trauma into something that could be situated within the conventions of public display. In War Remains, an interdisciplinary group of researchers offer an innovative approach to the media history, arguing for the importance of media forms and specificity for remembering and sensing war. They point out how the conflicts of the past are indeed conflicts of the present the impact of the of world war era is resounding in the mediation of contemporary conflicts, the media dependence, and the myriad ways war remains with us today. The authors present analyses from media forms such as literary fiction, newspapers, radio, film, comic books, and weekly magazines between the 1910s and the 1970s. They apply perspectives from history, human rights studies, media history, journalism, film studies, comparative literature, publishing studies, and rhetoric. **

Author: Gina Perry File Type: epub When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. Milgram reported that fully 65 percent of the volunteers had repeatedly administered electric shocks of increasing strength to a man they believed to be in severe pain, even suffering a life-threatening heart condition, simply because an authority figure had told them to do so. Such behavior was linked to atrocities committed by ordinary people under the Nazi regime and immediately gripped the public imagination. The experiments remain a source of controversy and fascination more than fifty years later.In Behind the Shock Machine, psychologist and author Gina Perry unearths for the first time the full story of this controversial experiment and its startling repercussions. Interviewing the original participantsmany of whom remain haunted to this day about what they didand delving deep into Milgrams personal archive, she pieces together a more complex picture and much more troubling picture of these experiments than was originally presented by Milgram. Uncovering the details of the experiments leads her to question the validity of that 65 percent statistic and the claims that it revealed something essential about human nature. Fleshed out with dramatic transcripts of the tests themselves, the book puts a human face on the unwitting people who faced the moral test of the shock machine and offers a gripping, unforgettable tale of one mans ambition and an experiment that defined a generation.ReviewPraise for the Australian editionRemarkableReading Behind the Shock Machine becomes an act of creative disobedience.The AustralianThere may be no studies of the twentieth century more hauntingor more revealing of human beings at their best and worstthan Stanley Milgrams work. And here, finally, is a book that illuminates Milgram and his research subjects in riveting, compassionate detail.Deborah Blum, author of Love at Goon Park[A] provocative magnum opus full of new info and insights, written with a literary flair so engaging and absorbing that I found it hard to put down.Thomas Blass, author of The Man Who Shocked the WorldAn intriguing tale about science, ethics and storytelling.The AgeAn absorbing account of Stanley Milgram, his subjects, and the continuing quest to understand what it means to be human.David Baker, director, Archives of the History of American PsychologyAbout the AuthorGina Perry is a psychologist and writer. She wrote the Australian Broadcasting Corporations award-winning Radio National documentary Beyond the Shock Machine. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.