Wiseman’s response was to dig ever deeper into coercive social forces. He planned a series of films on institutions and their official exertion of power—whether by law or knowledge, by physical discipline or administrative abstractions. The distinctive scope and focus of his rapidly growing œuvre can be seen in these films’ titles, which, by 1971, included “High School,” “Hospital,” “Law and Order,” and “Basic Training.”journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter