Tapping into Our Tribal Heritage: The Lord of the Rings and Brain Evolution
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Tapping into Our Tribal Heritage : The Lord of the Rings and Brain Evolution. / Grodal, Torben Kragh.
Audiences: Defining and Researching Screen Entertainment Reception. ed. / Ian Christie. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012. p. 128-142, 261-262.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Tapping into Our Tribal Heritage
T2 - The Lord of the Rings and Brain Evolution
AU - Grodal, Torben Kragh
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The article analyzes The Lord of the Rings by using cognitive and neurological theory in combination with evolutionary theory. It first provide a short introduction to bio-culturalist theories of how biology and culture interact. It then describes the basic human emotional systems and how they are activated in The Lord of the Rings. It further describe how fundamental psychological dispositions are linked to tribalism, to group living, including dispositions for in-group altruism and warrior bonding, and how group living enhanced dispositions to submit to social hierarchies, that in The Lord of the Rings is linked to a religious-metaphysical hierarchy. The article explains the psychological link between submission and sublime experiences as induced by the books and films. It discusses the different moral systems used in the film on the background of moral psychology, The article discusses how The Lord of the Ring uses self-sacrifice as a costly signal of moral superiority and how the film use ideas of social exchange as model for dealing with metaphysical phenomena. Finally it discusses the fascination exerted by supernaturalism on viewers.
AB - The article analyzes The Lord of the Rings by using cognitive and neurological theory in combination with evolutionary theory. It first provide a short introduction to bio-culturalist theories of how biology and culture interact. It then describes the basic human emotional systems and how they are activated in The Lord of the Rings. It further describe how fundamental psychological dispositions are linked to tribalism, to group living, including dispositions for in-group altruism and warrior bonding, and how group living enhanced dispositions to submit to social hierarchies, that in The Lord of the Rings is linked to a religious-metaphysical hierarchy. The article explains the psychological link between submission and sublime experiences as induced by the books and films. It discusses the different moral systems used in the film on the background of moral psychology, The article discusses how The Lord of the Ring uses self-sacrifice as a costly signal of moral superiority and how the film use ideas of social exchange as model for dealing with metaphysical phenomena. Finally it discusses the fascination exerted by supernaturalism on viewers.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - 'The Lord of the Rings' cognitive film theory evolutionary theory film emotions tribalism the sublime in films
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9789089643629
SP - 128-142, 261-262
BT - Audiences
A2 - Christie, Ian
PB - Amsterdam University Press
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
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