Reclaiming Resitance: Shock Room and the Problem of Documentary 'Truth'

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Reclaiming Resitance: Shock Room and the Problem of Documentary 'Truth'
SKU:
02580-M188
Content Type:
Feature Documentary
Year Levels:
10-12
Learning Areas:
Psychology
Learning Areas:
Media
Learning Areas:
Ethics
Learning Areas:
Screen Studies
Key Themes:
Media Ethics and Responsibility, Sensationalism and Shock Culture, Audience Complicity and Consumption, Power, Control, and Representation, Impact of Images on Society and the Individual
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What role does choice play when we are tasked, as part of a chain of command, with inflicting harm on others? Does 'following orders' absolve us of individual moral responsibility? These questions lay at the heart of Stanley Milgram's 1960s experiments on obedience. In Shock Room, Kathryn Millard investigates these same questions