Getting inside your head [electronic resource] : what cognitive science can tell us about popular culture / Lisa Zunshine.
Zunshine, Lisa.
2012
PN56.P93 Z86 2012eb
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Title Getting inside your head [electronic resource] : what cognitive science can tell us about popular culture / Lisa Zunshine.
Author Zunshine, Lisa.
ISBN 9781421408750 (electronic bk.)
9781421406169
1421406160
Publication Details Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 217 p.) : ill.
Call Number PN56.P93 Z86 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 801/.92
Summary "We live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about each other's thoughts and feelings, what we want each other to think we know, and what we would dearly love to know but don't. Cognitive scientists have a special term for the evolved cognitive adaptation that makes us attribute mental states to other people through observation of their body language; they call it theory of mind. Getting Inside Your Head uses research in theory of mind to look at movies, musicals, novels, classic Chinese opera, stand-up comedy, mock-documentaries, photography, and reality television. It follows Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy as he tries to conceal his anger, Tyler Durden as he lectures a stranger at gunpoint in Fight Club, and Ingrid Bergman as she fakes interest in horse races in Notorious. This engaging book exemplifies the new interdisciplinary field of cognitive cultural studies, demonstrating that collaboration between cognitive science and cultural studies is both exciting and productive."--book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Culture of greedy mind readers
I know what you're thinking, Mr. Darcy!
Sadistic benefactors
Theaters, hippodromes, and other mousetraps
Movies : the power of restraint
Mockumentaries, photography, and stand-up comedy : upping the agony
Reality TV : humiliation in real time
Musicals (particularly around 11 pm)
Painting feelings
Painting mysteries.

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