#Juliette Eisner

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The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth A Beautiful Lie Juliette Eisner France/USA, 2024

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Tribeca 2024: "The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth" Behind Abuse and Power"

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Excuses are often used to justify wrongdoing, avoid blame, or seek sympathy. However, any wrongdoing is ultimately a choice made by an individual driven by their desires. This is precisely why the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment went so disastrously wrong. Those chosen to wield power did not exercise their humanity; instead, they chose cruelty, torture, and abuse.…

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"In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly divided college students into two groups, guards and prisoners, and set them loose in a simulated prison environment for six days, documenting the guards' descent into brutality. His findings caused a media sensation and a lot of subsequent criticism about the ethics and methodology employed in the study. Zimbardo died last month at 91, but his controversial legacy continues to resonate some 50 years later with The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth, a new documentary from National Geographic. [...]

"It was made very clear to us that we not part of the experiment," former guard Dave Eshleman told Ars. "We were there to help the researchers get the results from the prisoners that they wanted to see. So our job was to make them uncomfortable, give them a sense of fear, but not to use physical violence. We could do everything else within our power to create that fear, and I took that very seriously, because I was on board with what they were trying to do: expose the prison system as evil. Given the zeitgeist at the time, we were all on board with that. Those were the days when anybody with the establishment was automatically evil, and what more evil part of the establishment could there be but the prison system?"

There are also valid questions about whether or not the prisoners' behavior was truly authentic. Doug Korpi later claimed he faked his mental breakdown in the Hole, having become disillusioned with the study. He had thought it would give him some downtime to study for the Graduate Record Exam, but the guards wouldn't allow it. So he staged a breakdown to secure his release.

Korpi was not alone in this. Despite being the poster boy for the guards' collective brutality, "I was absolutely playing for the camera," said Eshleman. "I knew where the camera was, I knew that it was on most of the time, I could hear the researchers talking behind the wall. I was also an acting student and did a lot of improv exercises. So I treated this is an improv, and I created my character based on what my understanding was of what the researchers wanted from us." He based his character on Strother Martin, the fictional evil prison warden from Cool Hand Luke (1967); Eshleman even occasionally spoke actual lines from the film, and his antics earned him the moniker "John Wayne."

Ramsay's experience as a prisoner was a bit different. "I don't think any of the prisoners were conscious of the camera, honestly," he told Ars. "We were not entirely sure where it was, we thought we saw it sometimes. But we were not getting regular instructions, we were being fed badly, clothed badly, et cetera. In a situation like that, what the camera angle is, it's the least of your worries."

In retrospect, the Stanford Prison Experiment may have more in common with reality TV; the industry term has evolved into "unscripted" TV because of the countless ways the final product is manipulated and shaped over the course of filming. Zimbardo even admits as much in the documentary, calling his experiment "the first ever reality TV show.""

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I'm in the next print issue of The Comics Journal, issue 310, reviewing the work of Noah Van Sciver. I have received a contributor's copy and the whole issue is great: There's an Allee Errico 8-pager about music, NSFW Jess Johnson sketchbooks, a conversation between Lale Westvind and Aidan Koch moderated by Austin English, a Juliette Collet interview conducted by RJ Casey, a very well-researched look into the Bill Jemas era of Marvel by Zach Rabiroff, and a Gerald Scarfe biography and introduction I am starting to read now. All this and more makes it a worthy $24.95 to spend, but that price point makes getting a subscription even more worthwhile - It's $48 for 4 issues, a price point seemingly determined before the price went up to $24.95 for this particularly issue. I cannot guarantee I will be in the future issues. as no one has asked me to do anything, but the quality of this issue points to strong issues to come. Issue 309 just won an Eisner, congratulations to all involved, and issue 310 is even better. I will probably make another post when it is actually out on sale, but once that happens I don't think a subscription will start with that issue, so now is the time to subscribe.

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The Prison of Memory: National Geographic Unlocks New Truths in Landmark Stanford Experiment Series.

National Geographic’s riveting new docuseries “The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth” masterfully peels back the layers of one of psychology’s most influential and controversial studies. Through intimate interviews with the original participants—many speaking on camera for the first time in 50 years—director Juliette Eisner crafts a compelling narrative that challenges our…

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Sin City Isn't Ready For The Two Million Dollar Girl: Crowded #9

Sin City Isn’t Ready For The Two Million Dollar Girl: Crowded #9

Charlie and Vita’s hopes of ending the Reapr campaign rest on a potentially insane techbro billionaire hiding in the penthouse of Las Vegas’ most secure casino. And if their plan to break in succeeds, they’ll still have to bust out of a desperate town of people one bad bet away from killing them both.

Charlie and Vita’s plan in Crowded #9to sneak into a high end casino on the strip is absolutely…

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The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth The Unraveling Juliette Eisner France/USA, 2024

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The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth The Hallway Juliette Eisner France/USA, 2024