Behind the Shock Machine (50 page)

30.
    See Solomon Asch, “Independence or Conformity in the Asch Experiment as a Reflection of Cultural and Situational Factors: A Comment on Perin and Spencer,”
British Journal of Social Psychology
20 (1981): 223–25.

31.
    SMP, box 61, folder 114.

32.
    Letter from Patrick Taylor of Tavistock Publications, dated May 6, 1974, in SMP, box 61, folder 113. Thomas Blass also noted the
Horizon
program in
Man Who Shocked the World
, 220.

33.
    Kirsten Fermaglich noted this in
Nazi Dreams and American Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957–65
(Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2006), 114.

34.
    Quoted in William Nichols, “The Burden of Imagination: Stanley Milgram’s
Obedience to Authority
,” in
Writing from Experience
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 173.

35.
    Stephen Marcus, “
Obedience to Authority
,”
New York Times Book Review
, January 13, 1974, 24–25.

36.
    Brown was an assistant professor when Milgram was a graduate student at Harvard. Blass,
Man Who Shocked the World
, 20.

37.
    Ibid., 221.

38.
    Waters, “Professor Stanley Milgram,” 32.

39.
    Lawrence Kohlberg, “More Authority,”
New York Times Book Review
, March 24, 1978, 42–43.

40.
    Waters, “Professor Stanley Milgram,” 31–32.

41.
    Blass,
Man Who Shocked the World
, 212.

11. REPRESENTING OBEDIENCE

1.
     Quoted in “The Tenth Level—A Toupological Analysis,”
Shatner’s Toupee
, January 3, 2010,
shatnerstoupee.blogspot.com.au/2010/01/tenth-level-toupological-analysis.html
.

2.
     See Alan Elms, “Obedience Lite,”
American Psychologist
64, no. 1 (2009): 32–36.

3.
     SMP, box 23, folder 382.

4.
     SMP, box 46, folder 16.

5.
     SMP, box 76, folder 44.

6.
     Ibid.

7.
     SMP, box 75, folder 435.

8.
     Register of copyright and availability in SMP, box 85, folder 448. The film cost $260 a copy. Even today, university libraries will loan the film only for viewing within the library. Anna McCarthy noted Milgram’s permission to Italian and German stations in “Stanley Milgram, Allen Funt, and Me: Postwar Social Science and the ‘First Wave’ of Reality TV,” in
Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture
, Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette (New York: New York University Press, 2004), 35.

9.
     SMP, box 22, folder 534.

10.
    Dannie Abse,
The Dogs of Pavlov
(London: Valentine, Mitchell and Co., 1973), 22, 29.

11.
    Milgram’s letters in SMP, box 61, folder 108.

12.
    Rejection and commission in Sharland Trotter, “CBS to Dramatize Milgram Studies,”
APA Monitor
6, no. 3 (1975): 4.

13.
    SMP, box 64, folder 164.

14.
    Letter from and meeting with Bellak described in SMP, box 64, folder 164.

15.
    Thomas Blass,
The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram
(New York: Basic, 2004), 229.

16.
    Sharon Presley commented in response to Vaughan Bell, “Stanley Milgram, the 70s TV Drama,”
Mind Hacks
, July 23, 2010, mindhacks. com/2010/07/23/stanley-milgram-the-70s-tv-drama. Milgram may well have hoped to have some input into the film—he had already started his filmmaking career with a short documentary,
The City and the Self
, and had plans for more when he accepted the job with CBS. But he said in an interview with the
APA Monitor
, “They didn’t really want a technical adviser . . . I could have helped them with the rendering of the lab scenes—but the most significant input I had was to suggest what kinds of journals might be on the professor’s desk. I recommended the whole glorious APA list.” In Trotter, “CBS to Dramatize Milgram Studies,” 4.

17.
    SMP, box 64, folder 164.

18.
    Quotations and ad in ibid.

19.
    Quotation in Brian Lowry, “Eli Roth Probes Evil on Discovery’s ‘Curiosity,’”
Variety
, October 24, 2011,
weblogs.variety.com/bltv/2011/10/roth-probes-nature-of-evil-on-discoverys-curiosity.html
. See Michael Portillo, “How Violent Are You?”
Horizon
, BBC Two, 2009; Chris Hansen, “What Were You Thinking?”
Dateline
, NBC, 2010; and Eli Roth,
How Evil Are You?
Discovery Channel, 2011.

20.
    SMP, box 70, folder 289.

CONCLUSION

1.
     Ian Parker also made this point in his article “Obedience,”
Granta
71, no. 4 (2000): 99–125.

2.
     Quoted in Jeffrey Shandler,
While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 121.

3.
     Caryl Marsh, “A Science Museum Exhibit on Milgram’s Obedience Research,” in
Obedience to Authority: Current Perspectives on the Milgram Paradigm
, ed. Thomas Blass (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000), 145–59.

4.
     SMP, box 43, folder 128.

5.
     Milgram threatened psychologist David Mantell with legal action for using his design, even though it was not patented. In SMP, box 18, folder 264.

6.
     Solomon Asch Papers, Archives of the History of American Psychology, University of Akron, box 2868, folder 15.

7.
     Parker, “Obedience,” 121.

8.
     SMP, box 46, folder 164. Successive quotations in ibid.

9.
     SMP, box 46, folder 163.

10.
    Augustine Brannigan made this point in “The Postmodern Experiment: Science and Ontology in Experimental Social Psychology,”
British Journal of Sociology
48, no. 4 (1997): 594–610.

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