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Lädt ... Creepinessvon Adam Kotsko
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A specter is haunting contemporary televisionâ??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 examplesâ??from Peep Show to Girls, from Orange is the New Black to Breaking Badâ??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 al Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Unfortunately this slim but entertaining book doesn't meet this lofty tagline. While there is an introductory Freudian reading of the concept of creepiness, Kotsko feels it might be a modern English translation of Unheimlich as opposed to the standard Uncanny. Soon after the introduction this phenomenon is explored through cinematic and TV examples. I have a cursory knowledge of most of the examples cited but felt this an inchoate or simply flawed pursuit.
This book belongs to a trilogy of works where the author confronts Awkwardness, our riveting interest in sociopaths and now this. Is there a solution? The author advises white straight males to move out of the spotlight.
As if.
It is intriguing that he wrote this book during the Obama years when Secretary Clinton was certainly going to be next president. Who could have anticipated the backlash -- first to the election of DJT but then the climate change which is #MeToo? The final event/movement made the discussion of the show Louis more than a little unsettling. Kotsko looks forward to a future of hysteria but only as an illumination.
As I age I find myself present in the world and do as little as possible to present myself as creepy. I harbor doubts about the effectiveness of such. A friend asked me yesterday if I was too preoccupied with The Holocaust. I wasn't sure and asked around: my friend Tim said, that for a gentile, perhaps--but he gave me a pass since "I was woke."