Paul Mescal puts on an adequate performance in his SNL debut on December 7, 2024. We discuss spontaneity, creativity, and social comparison in Italian Restaurant Commercial, representations of masculinity in Please Don’t Destroy: Paul Mescal is Daddy, and the inconsistent appeal of multi and cross genre content in Gladiator II: The Musical and Shaboozy’s A Bar Song (Tipsy). Readings including a meta analysis of social comparison, philosophy and psychology of creativity, and a review of genre performances at the box office.
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Readings
Arvan, M. (2023). Doing Masculinity Better. In D. Baggett & M. Baggett (eds.), Ted Lasso and Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 96-104 (2023). https://philpapers.org/rec/BAGTLA
Benjamin | Personal Power (2021 May 24). Leon Festinger: Social Comparison Theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDtH0_cM5k
Gerber, J. P., Wheeler, L., & Suls, J. (2017, November 16). A Social Comparison Theory MetaAnalysis 60+ Years On. Psychological Bulletin. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bul000012
Kauppinen, A. (forthcoming). Creativity, Spontaneity, and Merit. In Alex King (ed.), Philosophy and Art: New Essays at the Intersection. Oxford University Press. https://philpapers.org/rec/HAZPAA
Kim, I., & Kim, H. (2018). The More, the Better? Movie Genre and Performance Analysis. Journal of Business and Educational Leadership, 7(1), 105-113. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sue-Joiner/publication/369972577_An_Overview_Analysis_of_Expected_Potential_Returns_from_Selected_Tex-Mex/links/6437372020f25554da299cb4/An-Overview-Analysis-of-Expected-Potential-Returns-from-Selected-Tex-Mex.pdf
Zitek, E. M., & Vincent, L. C. (2015). Deserve and diverge: Feeling entitled makes people more creative. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 242-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.10.006
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