Getting inside your head: what cognitive science can tell us about popular culture

Abstract

In which Clarissa is fooled while Evelina watches a fool; Lev Tolstoy, Ernst Lubitsch, and Alfred Hitchcock walk into a hippodrome; and readers are made to think first of Cary Grant and then of Colin Firth. FIVE Movies: The Power of Restraint 79 In which readers return to Hitchcock's Notorious and realize that neither a bowl of soup nor a cup of coffee are what they seem to be; Matt Damon plays poker; Humphrey Bogart loses the girl; Helen Mirren loses a crumpet; Ralph Fiennes loses his cool; Hillary Clinton almost coughs; and blame is wrongly assigned. Contents 9781421406169_Zunshine_Head_int_1pgs.indd 7 3/2/12 12:44 PM Coda 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 197 Index 211 9781421406169_Zunshine_Head_int_1pgs.indd 8 3/2/12 12:44 PM 10 2. Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet 35 3. Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy 36 4. Joon B. Kim, Brad Pitt, and Edward Norton in Fight Club 50 5. Clarissa (Saskia Wickham) and Lovelace (Sean Bean) at the theater 61 6. Spying on other spectators in Lady Windermere's Fan 66 7. Mrs. Erlynne (Irene Rich) framed by binoculars in Lady Windermere's Fan 67 8. Lord Darlington (Ronald Colman) notices Lord Windermere's (Bert Lytell's) interest in Mrs. Erlynne 68 9. Lord Darlington and Lord Windermere feign interest in the program 69 10. Men turn to look at Mrs. Erlynne 70 11. Horse races in Hitchcock's Notorious 71 12. Paul Ashworth (Colin Firth) watches football in Fever Pitch 75 13. Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) looks at a cup of coffee in Notorious 82 14. The cup of coffee from Notorious 83 15. Elizabeth (Helen Mirren) gives up the crumpet in The Queen 88 16. Elizabeth weeps with her back to the camera in The Queen 89 17. Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) in Rounders 91 18. Herbie (John Turturro) watches Charles (Ralph Fiennes) in Quiz Show 95 19. Herbie steps behind the corner 96 20. Dawn (Lucy Davis) and David (Ricky Gervais) in The Office 105 21. A child with a puppet 112 Illustrations ix 9781421406169_Zunshine_Head_int_1pgs.indd 9 3/2/12 12:44 PM x ILLU ST R ATIO N S 22. Nellie (Mitzi Gaynor) thinks in song in South Pacific 127 23. Emile (Rossano Brazzi) thinks in song in South Pacific 128 24. The freeze-frame shot behind Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls 131 25. My Fair Lady: "Where the devil are my slippers?" (Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn) 133 26. Dot (Bernadette Peters) prancing onstage next to her dress in Sunday in the Park with George 135 27. Dot (Bernadette Peters) poses for George (Mandy Patinkin) 136 28.