Jericho and I are so excited to offer TX200: Movies, Myth, and the Mind this Fall! In a nutshell, our course is exploring how films—esp. in a movie theater--are contemporary mythology, can be sites for self-care, and can be like a religious experience. It is a mashup of cognitive and social psychology with therapy, religious studies, mythology, and poetry, examining why we can feel like kids again, feel deep empathy or relate to characters that we don't feel as so alone or an outcast, or leave transformed by a movie in conjunction with a theater experience.
