Editors' Introduction: On Brainwashing: Mind Control, Media, and Warfare

Andreas Killen is an Associate Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York and is the author of the book Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity (University of California Press, 2006). He specializes in the history of modern Germany and the history of the human sciences.

Stefan Andriopoulos is the author of Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema (University of Chicago Press, 2008). He teaches in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University and has held visiting professorships at Harvard University, in the Department of the History of Science, and at Cologne University, in the Research Institute “Media, Culture, Communication.” He is currently completing a new book, Ghostly Appa ritions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media (Zone Books, forthcoming).