Mind, body, and emotion in the reception and creation practices of fan communities : thinking through feels / Jessica Hautsch.
Hautsch, Jessica, author.
2023
HM646 .H38 2023
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Title
Mind, body, and emotion in the reception and creation practices of fan communities : thinking through feels / Jessica Hautsch.
Author
Hautsch, Jessica, author.
ISBN
9783031324505 (electronic bk.)
3031324501 (electronic bk.)
9783031324499
3031324498
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32450-5
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-32450-5 doi
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HM646 .H38 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.33
Summary
This book argues that fans' creative works form a cognitive system; fanfic, fanvids, and gifs are not simply evidence of thinking, but acts of thinking. Drawing on work in cognitive linguistics, neuroscience, cognitive philosophy, and psychology -- particularly focused on 4-E cognition, which rejects Cartesian dualism -- this project demonstrates that cognition is an embodied, emotional, and distributed act that emerges from fans' interactions with media texts, technological interfaces, and fan collectives. This mode of textual engagement is deeply physical, emotional, and social and is enacted through fanworks. By developing a theory of critical closeness, this book proposes a methodology for fruitfully putting cognitive science in conversation with fan studies. Jessica Hautsch is an assistant professor in the Humanities Department at New York Institute of Technology. She earned her PhD from Stony Brook University, where she also taught as a lecturer with the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Her work offers a phenomenological interrogation of fan communities, exploring how the cognitive humanities, performance studies, and fandom intersect. She is an avid fan of Buffy, Game of Thrones, D&D, and emo.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 19, 2023).
Series
Palgrave fan studies, 2662-2815
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ebook version : 9783031324505
Print version: 9783031324499
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1 Introduction: Body, Feeling, Community, and Cognition
Rewriting Stories and Bad Readers
4 -E Cognition
Cognitive Linguistics
Emotions
Embodied Cognition
Extended and Distributed Cognition
Critical Closeness
A Note on Methodology
Chapter Overview
References
2 Catching Feels: Fan Feelings, Bodies, and Communities
Fan Feelings
Conceptualizing Feels
Metaphors We Feel By
Conclusion: You, Me, Fandom, and Feels
References
3 Living through Gifs: Embodied Cognition and Emotion
An Embodied Understanding of Gifs
A Feeling of Community
The Bodies that Launched a Thousand Ships
Conclusion: Casting Bodies
References
4 Actors, Characters, and Blending
Conceptual Blending Theory and Compression
Bodies That Matter
Haunting Bodies across AUs
Conclusion: Communal Contexts
References
5 Reframing Vids
Communal Ways of Thinking
Blending Stories
Embodied and Embedded Rehearsal
Cutting Together Crossovers
Conclusion: Performing Community
References
6 Casting, Counterfactuals, and the Communal Construction of Characters
Knowing Characters through Conceptual Blending
Casting AU Fics
Thinking through Stories
Conclusion: Cognitive Flexibility
References
7 Epilogue
References.

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