| Creepiness Contributor(s): Kotsko, Adam (Author) |
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ISBN: 1782798463 ISBN-13: 9781782798460 Publisher: Zero Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Social Science | Popular Culture - Psychology | Emotions |
| Dewey: 152.46 |
| LCCN: 2014945879 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.39 lbs) 137 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kotsko, Adam: - Adam Kotsko is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College, Chicago. He is the author of Zizek and Theology (2008), Politics of Redemption (2010), and Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television (2012). He is the translator of Agamben's The Sacrament of Language (2010), The Highest Poverty (2013), Opus Dei (2013), Pilate and Jesus (forthcoming) and The Use of Bodies (forthcoming). He blogs at An und für sich (itself.wordpress.com). |