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Creepiness

By Adam Kotsko

Creepiness

By Adam Kotsko

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A specter is haunting contemporary television—the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea that we ourselves might be creeps. And yet when we sit down to watch TV, we are increasingly entranced by creepy characters. In this follow-up to Awkwardness and Why We Love Sociopaths, Adam Kotsko tries to account for the strange fascination of creepiness. In addition to surveying a wide range of contemporary examples—from Peep Show to Girls, from Orange is the New Black to Breaking Bad—Kotsko mines the television of his 90s childhood, marveling at the creepiness that seemed to be hiding in plain sight in shows like Full House and Family Matters. Using Freud as his guide through the treacherous territory of creepiness, Kotsko argues that we are fascinated by the creepy because in our own ways, we are all creeps.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
138
Release Date:
2015-02-27
Publication Date:
2015-02-27
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Distribution Clients
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1782798463
ISBN13:
9781782798460
Weight:
149 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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