The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic - Image 1

£38.33

Routledge The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic

Name: The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic
Brand: Routledge
Price: 38.33 GBP
Availability: InStock

Radio

Price History & Forecast

Last 84 days • 84 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 84 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £38 (60 days, 71.4%)

Price range: £38 - £46

Price levels: 3 different prices over 84 days

Description

On Halloween night 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of the H. G. Wells fantasy, The War of the Worlds. What listeners heard sounded so realistic that at least a million were frightened by word that "strange creatures" from Mars had landed in central New Jersey and were "unleashing a deadly assault." Several thousand were so terrified they ran into the streets, drove away in their cars, or called the police for information about how to escape. Why did so many panic when the circumstances reported were so improbable? That is just the question Hadley Cantril, then a young social psychologist, set out to answer. Originally published in 1940, The Invasion from Mars remains a classic. The broadcast provided a unique real-life opportunity to explore why the relatively new medium of radio could have such an effect. Using a mix of research methods, Cantril shows that the impact of the broadcast had less to do with what went out over the air than with the "standards of judgment" people did or did not use in evaluating what they were hearing. This book is of continuing value to those interested in communications and mass behavior.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1412804701
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Radio
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 May 2005
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic

OUTBREAK! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior

The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 1934-1952 (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture)

Listen in Terror: British Horror Radio from the Advent of Broadcasting to the Digital Age

Routledge The Mass Audience: Rediscovering the Dominant Model

The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions)

Social Communication in Advertising: Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace

Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety

The Future of the Mass Audience

Radio Audiences and Participation in the Age of Network Society (Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education)

Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-1939

Clandestine Radio Broadcasting: A Study of Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Electronic Communication

The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics

Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media: Historical Perspectives (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of International Crisis Communication

Communication and Catastrophic Events: Strategic Risk and Crisis Management (Communicating Science in Times of Crisis)

Routledge Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety Book

Of Divine Warning: Disaster in a Modern Age (Radical Imagination)

Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio, and TV (Cambridge Essential Histories)

Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (Social Problems & Social Issues)

Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media: Historical Perspectives (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Media Effects and Society (Routledge Communication Series)

Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance

Routledge - Living with Television - Sociology Research Book