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Three films about mass influence, by Lily Ford

17 August 2021 | by Naomi Richman | Categories:

Mass influence is one of the key themes of the Hidden Persuaders project. I was interested in exploring some sites of mass influence in our recent history. My series of three films, on cigarette advertising and non-smoker activism, Beatlemania, and the smartphone, expose and interrogate some old and new anxieties about this influence on others... Read more »

A Faceless Crisis

9 April 2020 | by imagor01 | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs, General

Naomi Richman examines the language, metaphors and imagery that our minds attach to the ‘invisible enemy’ that is coronavirus.