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Mind, Body, and Emotion in the Reception and Creation Practices of Fan Communities

Thinking Through Feels

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Authors:
  1. Jessica Hautsch

    1. Humanities, New York Technical Institute, Old Westbury, USA

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  • A novel way of analyzing fan thinking and creation, focusing on embodied, emotional, and communal cognitive systems
  • An examination of cognitive science principles through fandom offering a new understanding of how we read and write
  • A study of not just what fans think, but how fans think

Part of the book series: Palgrave Fan Studies (PFS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Body, Feeling, Community, and Cognition

    • Jessica Hautsch
    Pages 1-37

  3. Catching Feels: Fan Feelings, Bodies, and Communities

    • Jessica Hautsch
    Pages 39-69

  4. Living through Gifs: Embodied Cognition and Emotion

    • Jessica Hautsch
    Pages 71-105

  5. Actors, Characters, and Blending

    • Jessica Hautsch
    Pages 107-137

  6. Reframing Vids

    • Jessica Hautsch
    Pages 139-170

  7. Casting, Counterfactuals, and the Communal Construction of Characters

    • Jessica Hautsch
    Pages 171-206

  8. Epilogue

    • Jessica Hautsch
    Pages 207-211

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 213-224
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Humanities, New York Technical Institute, Old Westbury, USA

    Jessica Hautsch

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mind, Body, and Emotion in the Reception and Creation Practices of Fan Communities

  • Book Subtitle: Thinking Through Feels

  • Authors: Jessica Hautsch

  • Series Title: Palgrave Fan Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32450-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32449-9Published: 13 July 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32452-9Due: 13 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32450-5Published: 12 July 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2662-2807

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-2815

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 224

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Popular Culture

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