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      Hidden persuaders on film: Exploring young people’s lived experience through visual essays

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      UCL Press
      film, visual essay, lived experience, brainwashing, history

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          Abstract

          The Hidden Persuaders research group examines ‘brainwashing’ in the Cold War for the roles, real and imagined, played by psychologists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. Our project engaged young people in an exploration of the history of fears about brainwashing, and enabled them to explore their thoughts and ideas about the forces that shape their lives in contemporary society, through film-making. Working with three schools in the Camden area of London, our partners at the Derek Jarman Lab media hub, Birkbeck, University of London, and an artist facilitator (Lizzie Burns), we invited Year 12 students to learn filming and editing to create their own short video essays. The use of this format resulted in a significant depth of engagement and generated a wealth of creative responses. The various stages of the film-making process enabled the students to work out the terms of an argument and to consider how best to express it concisely. In the resulting films, they came up with a variety of forms of visual storytelling, and used the medium to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas in diverse ways, giving us a range of new perspectives which we could consider in relation to our historical research.

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                Journal
                rfa
                Research for All
                UCL Press (UK )
                2399-8121
                21 September 2021
                : 5
                : 2
                : 382-398
                Affiliations
                [1]Birkbeck, University of London, UK
                [2]Public Engagement Consultant, UK
                Author notes
                *Corresponding author – email: mc.hallsworth@ 123456googlemail.com
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4378-2001
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7648-1208
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1809-3036
                Article
                10.14324/RFA.05.2.13
                afa4ec4d-e73c-4026-9d3a-cd61308e571f
                Copyright © 2021 Pick, Hallsworth and Marks

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 03 September 2020
                : 12 May 2021
                Page count
                Figures: 2, References: 17, Pages: 18

                Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Education & Public policy,Educational research & Statistics
                lived experience,history,brainwashing,visual essay,film

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