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Panic Attacks by Robert E. Bartholomew, Hilary Evans


Panic Attacks

Robert E. Bartholomew, Hilary Evans

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Panic Attacks by Robert E. Bartholomew, Hilary Evans
There have been many media-induced cases of mass hysteria in the twentieth century - perhaps the Orson Welles Mercury Theater broadcast being the most notorious. On Sunday 30 October 1938, many Americans reportedly panicked after listening to a radio play depicting a Martian landing in Grovers Mill, New Jersey. It is still widely believed that the episode triggered suicides and heart attacks. Other accounts tell of terrorised residents clutching shotguns and barricading their homes, ready to defend loved ones against the Martians. The drama was produced by Orson Welles and the script was based on an 1898 science fiction classic, The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells and was the beginning of a wave of Martian invasion scare stories. Robert Bartholomew and Hilary Evans, both experts in the history of unexplained phenomena, examine the ability of the media to whip up a panic and our tendency to fall victim to mass delusion and hysteria in this entertaining and searching book. Among some of the popular delusions they discuss are America's 'kissing bug' scare of 1899; Seattle's atomic fallout fiasco of 1954; the phantom slasher of Tapei in 1956; Belgium's recent Coca-Cola poisoning scare

About the Author

Robert E. Bartholomew is a sociologist at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. His previous books include UFO's & Alien Contact: Two Centuries of Mystery, Hoaxes, Myths and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking and Mass Hysteria: A Social History of the Strange. Hilary Evans, director of the Mary Evans Picture Library, is a member of the Society for Psychical Research.
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Format
 Hardback
256 pages

Author
Robert E. Bartholomew, Hilary Evans

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Publisher
Sutton Publishing Ltd an imprint of The History Press Ltd

Publication date
19th August 2004


ISBN
9780750937856
 

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